Ghent Altarpiece (detail) Color Palette — Jan van Eyck (1432)

- black
- maroon
- brown
- rust
- terracotta
- peach
About this palette
Ghent Altarpiece (detail) is a painting by Jan van Eyck, dated 1432. It comes from Northern European art of the centuries before 1500.
Its six colors run from black (#261214) up to peach (#FFD7B4), passing through maroon, brown, rust, terracotta. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 8 to 89 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of October 1, 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, 16, 32, 128 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is peach.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048