The value structure of Samuel Peploe is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. A distinctly cool atmosphere runs through this palette: sky, water, and mist given colour form. A restrained, mid-chroma palette: every hue is present and legible, but nothing shouts. At 8.2%, #554628 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 70 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 16 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Samuel Peploe's complete body of work advances.