Elias Pieter van Bommel distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. 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. #6D4B29 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (6.7%). A value spread of 55 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. The palette is a signature: Elias Pieter van Bommel's particular sense of value, warmth, and colour weight made legible.