George Hemming Mason is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from George Hemming Mason carry the compositional weight. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. The most saturated colour, #76471F, is reserved to 3.4% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range of 49 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that George Hemming Mason's complete body of work advances.