Mid-key values give High Renaissance its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues deployed as the palette's primary energy. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. At 4.0%, #E3D5CA carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 60 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth.