Mid-key values give Franz Sedlacek its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from Franz Sedlacek carry the compositional weight. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. #D29F7A functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (9.2%). A value spread of 69 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. This is palette 2 of Franz Sedlacek's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.