Haboku Landscape Color Palette — Sesshū Tōyō (1495)

- black
- charcoal
- red
- khaki
- sand
- cream
About this palette
Haboku Landscape is a painting by Sesshū Tōyō, dated 1495. It comes from Japanese art of the centuries before 1500.
Its six colors run from black (#14120F) up to cream (#EBDAB4), passing through charcoal, red, khaki, sand. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 6 to 88 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of October 9, 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