Pierre-Antoine Patel distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. The palette achieves thermal balance - reds and blues, ochres and greens, each holding the other in check. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. At 3.4%, #449B9E carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. The value range of 47 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Pierre-Antoine Patel's complete body of work advances.