Mid-key values give Eugeniusz Zak its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that Eugeniusz Zak deploys as the palette's primary energy. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. #DBC3A7 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (3.2%). The value range spans 60 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. This is palette 5 of Eugeniusz Zak's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.