Light floods Willi Baumeister; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. Warmth dominates - the palette of Willi Baumeister leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. The highest-chroma note - #556BA0 - appears at just 0.9%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. 61 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Willi Baumeister's complete body of work advances.