Marcin Zaleski is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. At 7.6%, #C59759 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. A value spread of 66 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Marcin Zaleski's complete body of work advances.