Janos Mattis-Teutsch is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. The chromatic peak belongs to #E0C52E, and at 29.8% it dominates, not decorates. Spanning 45 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 1 of Janos Mattis-Teutsch's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.