Woman Holding a Balance Color Palette — Johannes Vermeer (1664)

- black
- dark umber
- brown
- brown
- blue gray
- beige
About this palette
Woman Holding a Balance is a painting by Johannes Vermeer, dated 1664. It comes from Northern European art of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Its six colors run from black (#110C0C) up to beige (#DFD2A9), passing through dark umber, brown, blue gray. It is a high-contrast palette with muted tones, a mix of warm and cool (lightness 4 to 84 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of April 2, 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, 32, 128 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is beige.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048