Hue
Hue is the color family. A tiny hue miss can turn yellow into orange or blue into violet.
Score guide
What your ToonTones score means.
A good color memory score is not about naming the color. It is about matching the target shade closely enough across hue, saturation, and lightness.
The three parts of a color guess
Saturation
Saturation controls whether the color feels vivid, flat, soft, or gray.
Lightness
Lightness controls brightness. This is where many strong guesses lose points.
How to improve your score
Set hue first
Get the color family close before adjusting brightness or vividness.
Then lower saturation
Most remembered colors are less neon than your first guess.
Finish with lightness
Small brightness changes often decide whether a guess feels close or wrong.
What a good color memory score means
A high score means your final shade is close to the target across the whole color space, not just close in name. Two guesses can both be "blue" while one is much closer because it matches the same depth and vividness.
Scores above 8 usually mean the hue is right and the remaining miss is saturation or lightness. Scores above 9 mean the guess is visually close enough that many players would struggle to separate it from the target without direct comparison.
Low scores are useful too. They show whether your memory drifted to a different color family, whether the screen made the target look brighter, or whether you rushed before forming a stable mental reference.