Mid-key values give Hermann Wislicenus its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Warmth dominates - the palette of Hermann Wislicenus leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #974C3D, is reserved to 3.0% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 59 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. In the context of Hermann Wislicenus's full range of palettes, group 2 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.