Mid-key values give Isaac Whitehead its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. At 4.4%, #7E6249 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. 62 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Isaac Whitehead's complete body of work advances.