Robert Spencer keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Temperature is balanced: the palette pits warm earth against cool sky without declaring a winner. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. Only 4.0% is devoted to #857A2F, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. At 58 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. This is palette 2 of Robert Spencer's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.