Mid-key values give Ignace Brice its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. A single dominant - #29261B at 33.7% - sets the character of the whole composition. At 1.9%, #874125 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. A value spread of 55 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. These proportions encode Ignace Brice's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.