Palette 2048
The Elephant Celebes Color Palette — Max Ernst (1921)
- black
- charcoal
- dark green
- rust
- brown
- ivory
About this palette
The Elephant Celebes is a painting by Max Ernst, dated 1921. It comes from Northern European art of the early 20th century.
Its six colors run from black (#0F1311) up to ivory (#E2DCCD), passing through charcoal, dark green, rust, brown. It is a high-contrast palette with muted tones, a mix of warm and cool (lightness 5 to 88 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of May 17, 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 ivory.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048