Mid-key values give Charles Brooking its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. Only 9.2% is devoted to #5B563D, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. The palette spans 26 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. In the context of Charles Brooking's full range of palettes, group 5 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.