Konstantin Cretius is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. At 5.6%, #CA894B carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. The value range of 54 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. This is palette 1 of Konstantin Cretius's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.