The Slave Ship Color Palette — J.M.W. Turner (1840)

- black
- red
- red
- orange
- mustard
- cream
About this palette
The Slave Ship is a painting by J.M.W. Turner, dated 1840. It comes from Northern European art of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Its six colors run from black (#1C100A) up to cream (#FCEBC8), passing through red, orange, mustard. It is a high-contrast palette with rich, saturated tones, mostly warm (lightness 6 to 94 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of September 10, 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, 32, 64, 128, 256 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