Palette 2048
The Geographer Color Palette — Johannes Vermeer (1669)
- black
- dark umber
- brown
- khaki
- skin tone
- pale yellow
About this palette
The Geographer is a painting by Johannes Vermeer, dated 1669. It comes from Northern European art of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Its six colors run from black (#1A1711) up to pale yellow (#FFD896), passing through dark umber, brown, khaki, skin tone. It is a high-contrast palette with balanced tones, mostly warm (lightness 8 to 88 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of June 26, 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, 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