Richard Friese keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #DDD4BE at 5.4% is both the most chromatic and one of the largest colours in the palette - chroma as mass rather than as highlight. At 66 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 4 of Richard Friese's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.