Nathaniel Hone the Younger is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. A distinctly cool atmosphere runs through this palette: sky, water, and mist given colour form. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. #CFC1A2 delivers the chromatic peak at only 10.1% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. Value range is moderate at 43 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 1 of Nathaniel Hone the Younger's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.