Palette 2048
Past Times Color Palette — Kerry James Marshall (1997)
- black
- crimson
- ultramarine
- emerald
- yellow
- off-white
About this palette
Past Times is a painting by Kerry James Marshall, dated 1997. It comes from North American art of the postwar decades.
Its six colors run from black (#1B1B1B) up to off-white (#F3F1E6), passing through crimson, ultramarine, emerald, yellow. It is a high-contrast palette with rich, saturated tones, a mix of warm and cool (lightness 10 to 95 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of September 28, 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, 8, 32, 256, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is off-white.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048