Samuel Prout occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. Only 8.3% is devoted to #1D1308, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. A value spread of 56 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Samuel Prout's complete body of work advances.