John Lewis Krimmel sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from John Lewis Krimmel carry the compositional weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The highest-chroma note - #4E331D - appears at just 7.6%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. 73 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. This is palette 2 of John Lewis Krimmel's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.