Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge Color Palette — El Lissitzky (1919)
- black
- charcoal
- vermilion
- gray
- silver gray
- ivory
About this palette
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge is a painting by El Lissitzky, dated 1919. It comes from Western European art of the early 20th century.
Its six colors run from black (#0E1010) up to ivory (#F3F2E3), passing through charcoal, vermilion, gray, silver gray. It is a high-contrast palette with muted tones, a mix of warm and cool (lightness 5 to 95 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of June 21, 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, 64, 512, 1024 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