Palette 2048
White Ox Color Palette — Lee Jung-seob (1954)
- charcoal
- gray
- gray
- khaki
- tan
- ivory
About this palette
White Ox is a painting by Lee Jung-seob, dated 1954. It comes from Korean art of the postwar decades.
Its six colors run from charcoal (#314547) up to ivory (#F6EFD5), passing through gray, khaki, tan. It is a high-contrast palette with muted tones, a mix of warm and cool (lightness 28 to 94 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of May 11, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is charcoal, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 8, 32, 64, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is ivory.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048