Robert Lewis Reid works in the upper reaches of the value scale, creating an atmosphere of brightness and expansiveness. The palette achieves thermal balance - reds and blues, ochres and greens, each holding the other in check. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. Only 8.4% is devoted to #A98C77, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. A value spread of 56 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. In the context of Robert Lewis Reid's full range of palettes, group 5 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.