Palette 2048
The Blue Boy Color Palette — Thomas Gainsborough (1770)
- black
- black
- dark green
- dark umber
- blue gray
- slate gray
About this palette
The Blue Boy is a painting by Thomas Gainsborough, dated 1770. It comes from Northern European art of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Its six colors run from black (#0E1E26) up to slate gray (#71909E), passing through dark green, dark umber, blue gray. It is a palette with moderate contrast with muted tones, mostly cool (lightness 10 to 58 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of March 22, 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, 8, 16, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is slate gray.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048