The Arnolfini Portrait Color Palette — Jan van Eyck (1434)

- black
- dark umber
- olive
- rust
- sienna
- sand
About this palette
The Arnolfini Portrait is a painting by Jan van Eyck, dated 1434. It comes from Northern European art of the centuries before 1500.
Its six colors run from black (#191712) up to sand (#B8AD94), passing through dark umber, olive, rust, sienna. It is a palette with moderate contrast with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 8 to 71 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of July 28, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is black, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 4, 16, 128, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is sand.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048