Palette 2048
Six Gentlemen Color Palette — Ni Zan (1345)
- black
- dark umber
- red
- khaki
- cream
- cream
About this palette
Six Gentlemen is a painting by Ni Zan, dated 1345. It comes from Chinese art of the centuries before 1500.
Its six colors run from black (#1E1A14) up to cream (#EEE6C3), passing through dark umber, red, khaki. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 10 to 91 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of October 22, 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 cream.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048