John Quidor distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that John Quidor deploys as the palette's primary energy. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. The most saturated colour, #8C7D39, is reserved to 6.8% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 62 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that John Quidor's complete body of work advances.