Light floods John Ruskin; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. Only 10.0% is devoted to #52362F, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. A value spread of 72 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. John Ruskin's palette 4 carries its own internal logic while remaining in conversation with the artist's broader colour intelligence.