Rubens Santoro distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Rubens Santoro builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. #BEB496 delivers the chromatic peak at only 9.2% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 67 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Rubens Santoro's complete body of work advances.