Toon Tone Blog

Articles, tutorials, and behind-the-scenes notes about Toon Tone — the free browser cartoon color guessing game. Read up on color theory, learn how to push your scores higher, or follow what we're building next.

Featured guides

• How to play Toon Tone — full tutorial & tips

  The seven-step walkthrough: read the question, recall the color, slide HSB, score your guess, share your run. Plus tips for hitting 9.0+ averages.

• Color guessing game — what it is, how it works, where to play

  The complete genre guide. Definitions, formats, the perception science, and a curated list of free color guessing games online in 2026.

• Guess the color — train your eye for hue, saturation, and brightness

  Why guessing colors from memory is harder than it sounds, plus a practical training routine that takes five minutes a day.

• Why HSB beats RGB for color guessing games

  A technical deep dive into the color model behind Toon Tone. RGB is right for hardware. HSB is right for humans. Here's why we chose what we chose.

• Toon Tone moved from Vercel — here's where to play now

  If you remember playing the Toon Tone Vercel app, here's the story of why we moved off the old subdomain and onto our own custom toontone.app domain.

• About Toon Tone

  The story behind the game, the cartoon catalog, the technology, and the small team that builds it.

• Tune Tone? Toon Tune? You probably mean Toon Tone

  A short spelling and disambiguation page for the most-misspelled name on the color-game internet.

What you'll find here over time

• Tutorials for new players who want to push past the 7.0 average
• Deep dives on color theory, perceptual learning, and design
• Behind-the-scenes notes on the technology powering the game
• Patch notes for new characters and features
• Translations and language-specific guides (Russian, more to come)