Álvaro Pires de Évora distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Warm and cool tones are held in careful balance - neither family dominates, creating tension and resolution simultaneously. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. #243640 at 35.5% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. The saturated accent, #D9C080, registers at 3.6% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. The palette spans 49 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. The combination of mid-to-high key, balanced temperature, and elevated chroma is characteristic of Impressionist observation: light broken into its component hues. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Álvaro Pires de Évora's complete body of work advances.