Stefan Popescu occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Mid-saturation across the board: the palette has colour character without chromatic excess. #E7BF7F delivers the chromatic peak at only 5.1% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. The palette spans 50 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 8 of Stefan Popescu's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.