Palette 2048
Night Revels of Han Xizai Color Palette — Gu Hongzhong (10th c.)
- maroon
- dark umber
- brown
- rust
- red
- sienna
About this palette
Night Revels of Han Xizai is a painting by Gu Hongzhong, dated 10th c.. It comes from Chinese art of the centuries before 1500.
Its six colors run from maroon (#270803) up to sienna (#914511), passing through dark umber, brown, rust, red. It is a close-valued, low-contrast palette with rich, saturated tones, mostly warm (lightness 6 to 38 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of August 31, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is maroon, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 4, 16, 32, 256 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is sienna.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048