Edwin Lord Weeks sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Edwin Lord Weeks builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The highest-chroma note - #BF9F5E - appears at just 5.0%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 56 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Edwin Lord Weeks's complete body of work advances.