Palette 2048
The Banjo Lesson Color Palette — Henry Ossawa Tanner (1893)
- black
- brown
- blue gray
- brown
- mustard
- sand
About this palette
The Banjo Lesson is a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, dated 1893. It comes from North American art of the second half of the 19th century.
Its six colors run from black (#1C1612) up to sand (#EBD2A0), passing through brown, blue gray, mustard. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 8 to 85 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of March 20, 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, 256, 512 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is sand.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048