Miklos Barabas occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Miklos Barabas balances warm and cool with remarkable evenness, giving the composition its characteristic vibrancy. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. At 5.8%, #DAB773 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. A value spread of 58 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. Palette 4 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Miklos Barabas's complete body of work advances.