Thomas Cole distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. At 4.0%, #C29C5D carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 63 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Thomas Cole's complete body of work advances.