Values in Edward Matthew Ward rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Edward Matthew Ward builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Mid-saturation across the board: the palette has colour character without chromatic excess. The saturated accent, #973917, registers at 5.1% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. 57 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Edward Matthew Ward's complete body of work advances.