Matthias Stom keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Matthias Stom keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The highest-chroma note - #B08D79 - appears at just 10.3%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. 61 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. In the context of Matthias Stom's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.