International Gothic occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues deployed as the palette's primary energy. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. #7F4B3D functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (9.9%). Spanning 51 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation.