Mid-key values give Georg Tappert its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. The most saturated colour, #CCAA73, is reserved to 5.5% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. Spanning 39 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 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Georg Tappert's complete body of work advances.