Quote Originally Posted by paulbarden View Post
You quoted Hahnemuhle Platinum paper. That's not a silver gelatin printing out paper.
If you want a warmtone silver gelatin print, the Ilford fiber paper is good. But the Fomatone Classic is even better. But gold toning silver gelatin prints cools them, it does not warm them. Tone a silver gelatin print with Gold chloride and you will get cold black/blue tones.
I think this is correct - ie gold toning on its own will tend to give blue-black tones, and often the blue-black shift will be more pronounced on a warm tone paper than a cold or neutral tone paper. The same applies generally to tone shifts by direct development.

Overall I would agree given the goals outlined by OP gold toning doesn’t seem like the right direction.