The high-key values of Karl Hauptmann give it an effulgent, almost bleached quality. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #9FCAD8 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (9.4%). Spanning 51 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Karl Hauptmann's complete body of work advances.