Palette 2048
Las Meninas Color Palette — Diego Velázquez (1656)
- black
- dark umber
- dark umber
- olive
- terracotta
- sand
About this palette
Las Meninas is a painting by Diego Velázquez, dated 1656. It comes from Southern European art of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Its six colors run from black (#100D06) up to sand (#D8C19A), passing through dark umber, olive, terracotta. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 4 to 79 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of July 9, 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, 8, 32, 128 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is sand.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048