Palette 2048
A Bigger Splash Color Palette — David Hockney (1967)
- terracotta
- steel blue
- sky blue
- sky blue
- pale yellow
- powder blue
About this palette
A Bigger Splash is a painting by David Hockney, dated 1967. It comes from Northern European art of the postwar decades.
Its six colors run from terracotta (#B67855) up to powder blue (#C7E1DF), passing through steel blue, sky blue, pale yellow. It is a close-valued, low-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly cool (lightness 56 to 88 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of July 29, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is terracotta, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 16, 32, 64, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is powder blue.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048