Eugène Laurent is strongly light-biased - shadow is suggested rather than declared. Eugène Laurent tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The highest-chroma note - #1E1C14 - appears at just 8.0%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. 76 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Eugène Laurent's complete body of work advances.