Palette 2048
The Great Wave Color Palette — Katsushika Hokusai (1831)
- navy
- deep blue
- skin tone
- skin tone
- beige
- off-white
About this palette
The Great Wave is a painting by Katsushika Hokusai, dated 1831. It comes from Japanese art of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Its six colors run from navy (#181A3C) up to off-white (#F8F7EE), passing through deep blue, skin tone, beige. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, a mix of warm and cool (lightness 11 to 97 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of May 29, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is navy, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 4, 256, 512, 1024 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is off-white.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048