The Oxbow Color Palette — Thomas Cole (1836)

- dark green
- olive
- brown
- gold
- skin tone
- silver gray
About this palette
The Oxbow is a painting by Thomas Cole, dated 1836. It comes from North American art of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Its six colors run from dark green (#2B3915) up to silver gray (#D3C4D8), passing through olive, brown, gold, skin tone. It is a palette with moderate contrast with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 22 to 81 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of April 16, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is dark green, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 4, 8, 64, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is silver gray.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048