Mid-key values give William Shayer its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Temperature is balanced: the palette pits warm earth against cool sky without declaring a winner. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. The saturated accent, #8E4E28, registers at 4.5% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. The full value range is 71 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. This is palette 5 of William Shayer's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.