William de Leftwich Dodge is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. At 4.0%, #5F1B13 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. At 58 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that William de Leftwich Dodge's complete body of work advances.