The Hay Wain Color Palette — John Constable (1821)

- black
- dark umber
- olive
- moss green
- steel blue
- silver gray
About this palette
The Hay Wain is a painting by John Constable, dated 1821. It comes from Western European art of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Its six colors run from black (#180F16) up to silver gray (#C8D5DA), passing through dark umber, olive, moss green, steel blue. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly cool (lightness 5 to 84 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of July 19, 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, 32, 64, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is silver gray.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048