Victor Borisov-Musatov occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. A restrained, mid-chroma palette: every hue is present and legible, but nothing shouts. The saturated accent, #18381C, registers at 9.6% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. 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. Palette 8 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Victor Borisov-Musatov's complete body of work advances.