Ralph Hedley distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Ralph Hedley keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #E2DAB7, is reserved to 8.1% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range spans 70 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Ralph Hedley's complete body of work advances.