Eduard Gaertner sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. The palette achieves thermal balance - reds and blues, ochres and greens, each holding the other in check. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The highest-chroma note - #D2C2A4 - appears at just 3.3%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. 63 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. The palette is recognisably Eduard Gaertner's own: particular in its temperature, chroma, and the economy of its brightest note.