Mid-key values give Walter Gay its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. The palette achieves thermal balance - reds and blues, ochres and greens, each holding the other in check. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. #CBB877 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (3.3%). The value range of 50 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. This is the light Walter Gay preferred, made measurable.