The Ninth Wave Color Palette — Ivan Aivazovsky (1850)

- dark umber
- teal
- dusty rose
- dusty blue
- mustard
- pale yellow
About this palette
The Ninth Wave is a painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, dated 1850. It comes from Eastern European art of the second half of the 19th century.
Its six colors run from dark umber (#4F3C21) up to pale yellow (#EECF78), passing through teal, dusty rose, dusty blue, mustard. It is a palette with moderate contrast with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 27 to 84 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of April 10, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is dark umber, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 8, 32, 128, 1024 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is pale yellow.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048