Light floods William Bradford; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. William Bradford builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The highest-chroma note - #DBBA8D - appears at just 5.5%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. 62 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. 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 William Bradford's complete body of work advances.