Sebastian Pether occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Sebastian Pether keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The saturated accent, #4E3210, registers at 10.0% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. A value spread of 57 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. These proportions encode Sebastian Pether's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.