Nandalal Bose is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. The saturated accent, #3F5190, registers at 8.4% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. At 66 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Nandalal Bose's complete body of work advances.