The Starry Night Color Palette — Vincent van Gogh (1889)
- black
- deep blue
- steel blue
- teal
- gold
- pale yellow
About this palette
The Starry Night is a painting by Vincent van Gogh, dated 1889. It comes from Western European art of the second half of the 19th century.
Its six colors run from black (#151A19) up to pale yellow (#D8D391), passing through deep blue, steel blue, teal, gold. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly cool (lightness 9 to 84 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of July 15, 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, 128, 1024 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is pale yellow.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048