Palette 2048
The Painter Color Palette — Marlene Dumas (1994)
- black
- cobalt blue
- red
- khaki
- skin tone
- ivory
About this palette
The Painter is a painting by Marlene Dumas, dated 1994. It comes from African art of the postwar decades.
Its six colors run from black (#1B1B21) up to ivory (#FFEED8), passing through cobalt blue, red, khaki, skin tone. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 10 to 95 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of November 3, 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, 8, 128, 512, 1024 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is ivory.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048