Ferdinand Hodler occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from Ferdinand Hodler carry the compositional weight. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. At 3.8%, #DED5C1 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. The value range of 48 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. This is palette 7 of Ferdinand Hodler's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.