Values in Heinrich Papin rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The highest-chroma note - #3A495D - appears at just 5.0%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The full value range is 58 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. These proportions encode Heinrich Papin's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.