Palette 2048

Sandías (Watermelons) Color Palette — Rufino Tamayo (1957)

About this palette

Sandías (Watermelons) is a painting by Rufino Tamayo, dated 1957. It comes from Latin American art of the postwar decades.

Its six colors run from black (#191419) up to silver gray (#F0C8C8), passing through crimson, dark green, red, forest green. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, a mix of warm and cool (lightness 7 to 84 in CIE Lab).

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How it plays in the puzzle

Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of June 4, 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, 16, 128, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is silver gray.

  1. 2
  2. 4
  3. 8
  4. 16
  5. 32
  6. 64
  7. 128
  8. 256
  9. 512
  10. 1024
  11. 2048

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