James Ward occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. Only 5.1% is devoted to #DDCCA8, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 57 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. This is palette 7 of James Ward's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.