Emmanuel Lansyer occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm and cool tones are held in careful balance - neither family dominates, creating tension and resolution simultaneously. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #393323 delivers the chromatic peak at only 12.0% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. The value range spans 63 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Emmanuel Lansyer's complete body of work advances.