Mid-key values give Matej Sternen its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. The saturated accent, #D5C18A, registers at 9.9% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. At 54 units across the value scale, the palette keeps contrast readable without letting it dominate. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Matej Sternen's palette 3 carries its own internal logic while remaining in conversation with the artist's broader colour intelligence.