Light floods Erich Buchholz; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Chroma is held at a comfortable level - distinct colours, but no single hue is allowed to overwhelm. The most saturated colour, #DD3F27, covers 27.0% of the surface: too much to call an accent, too strong to ignore. 68 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. In the context of Erich Buchholz's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.