Mid-key values give Cornelis van Noorde its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Temperature is balanced: the palette pits warm earth against cool sky without declaring a winner. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. At 6.7%, #D4B68E carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. At 61 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. The palette is recognisably Cornelis van Noorde's own: particular in its temperature, chroma, and the economy of its brightest note.