Palette 2048
The Origin of the Milky Way Color Palette — Tintoretto (1575)
- black
- dark umber
- charcoal
- charcoal
- brown
- olive
About this palette
The Origin of the Milky Way is a painting by Tintoretto, dated 1575. It comes from Western European art of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Its six colors run from black (#292420) up to olive (#987038), passing through dark umber, charcoal, brown. It is a close-valued, low-contrast palette with muted tones, mostly warm (lightness 15 to 50 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of August 16, 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, 32, 128, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is olive.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048