Composition Color Palette — Lee Krasner (1949)

- ultramarine
- red
- ochre
- sea green
- gold
- beige
About this palette
Composition is a painting by Lee Krasner, dated 1949. It comes from North American art of the postwar decades.
Its six colors run from ultramarine (#3D4A8E) up to beige (#C7CDB3), passing through red, ochre, sea green, gold. It is a palette with moderate contrast with rich, saturated tones, a mix of warm and cool (lightness 34 to 81 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of April 6, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is ultramarine, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 16, 32, 128, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is beige.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048