Palette 2048
The Block Color Palette — Romare Bearden (1971)
- black
- red
- sage
- steel blue
- sage
- sage
About this palette
The Block is a painting by Romare Bearden, dated 1971. It comes from North American art of the postwar decades.
Its six colors run from black (#20100B) up to sage (#C3D4A8), passing through red, sage. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly cool (lightness 6 to 83 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of May 5, 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, 16, 128, 256, 1024 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is sage.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048