Mid-key values give Eduard Stiegel its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that Eduard Stiegel deploys as the palette's primary energy. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. #90B7D7 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (6.9%). 64 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. In the context of Eduard Stiegel's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.