Ferdinand Hodler is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. At 4.7%, #CECBAE carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. Spanning 41 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 9 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Ferdinand Hodler's complete body of work advances.