Giovanni (Nino) Costa sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Giovanni (Nino) Costa keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #D5C0A2 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (5.9%). A value spread of 61 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. In the context of Giovanni (Nino) Costa's full range of palettes, group 5 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.