Oath of the Horatii Color Palette — Jacques-Louis David (1784)

- dark umber
- dark umber
- red
- slate gray
- skin tone
- silver gray
About this palette
Oath of the Horatii is a painting by Jacques-Louis David, dated 1784. It comes from Western European art of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Its six colors run from dark umber (#343230) up to silver gray (#D8D5CB), passing through red, slate gray, skin tone. It is a palette with moderate contrast with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 21 to 85 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of September 25, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is dark umber, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 4, 16, 128, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is silver gray.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048