Nikolaus Knüpfer sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained 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. The most saturated colour, #C5966A, is reserved to 10.0% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The full value range is 64 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. This is palette 1 of Nikolaus Knüpfer's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.