Arthur David McCormick sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Arthur David McCormick builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The highest-chroma note - #CAB68D - appears at just 6.2%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. A value spread of 59 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. In the context of Arthur David McCormick's full range of palettes, group 2 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.