Samuel Mutzner occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Neither warm nor cool has the upper hand here; the equilibrium between the two generates the palette's visual energy. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. At 8.1%, #7B5A4E carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. The value range of 52 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. This is palette 4 of Samuel Mutzner's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.