William Hawkins Palette 2

Palette Analysis

William Hawkins occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. William Hawkins tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. Only 11.1% is devoted to #404B58, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. 75 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 2 of William Hawkins's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.