Eduard Stiegel sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. Only 5.7% is devoted to #CFC29C, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 55 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Eduard Stiegel's complete body of work advances.