Color your
cartoons.
Toon Tone is a free daily browser game where you rebuild a famous cartoon character's exact color from memory using hue, saturation, and brightness sliders. Your guess is scored with CIEDE2000 color distance — the lower the score, the closer your color.
Guess colors from any cartoon or anime
Pick a show to play just its characters' colors — or a random mix from across them all.
The deepest cartoon color reference on the web
Toon Tone is two things at once: a daily color guessing game and the most thorough reference for cartoon character colors anywhere online. We catalog 94 characters across 40 franchises — every entry with an exact study hex, RGB, and HSB, a derived palette of tints and shades, and a short note on why that shade was chosen.
Looking up a specific character? Browse the full color library. Want your favorite show? Pick a collection. Need every yellow cartoon or every red one? Browse by color family.
How it works
- Read the prompt and picture the character's signature color.
- Drag the hue, saturation, and brightness sliders to match it.
- Submit to reveal the target, your ΔE (CIEDE2000) distance, and your points — then move to the next round.
Browse by color
Looking for a specific shade? Every character bucketed by dominant color family.
Frequently asked questions
What is Toon Tone?
Toon Tone is a free daily browser game where you rebuild a famous cartoon character's exact color from memory using hue, saturation, and brightness sliders. Each round names a character — Pikachu, Mario, the Simpsons, Sonic — and asks you to match the signature shade. No download or account is required.
How is my color scored?
Your guess is compared to the target with CIEDE2000, the modern perceptual color-difference metric. The result is a ΔE (delta-E) distance — lower is better — which converts to up to 100 points per round, so a near-perfect match scores near 100.
What does ΔE mean?
ΔE measures how far apart two colors look to the human eye. A ΔE near 1.0 is the smallest difference most people can notice; ΔE below 5 reads as 'close, but I can tell'; ΔE above 10 is clearly off.
Can I play characters from a specific cartoon or anime?
Yes. Above the game, choose any franchise — Pokémon, The Simpsons, Demon Slayer, Super Mario, Marvel, Studio Ghibli — to play only its characters. The 'Random mix' option draws from every franchise on the site.
Where do the hex codes come from?
Each character page lists widely-cited study hex, RGB, and HSB values used in color practice — for example #FFCB05 for Pikachu and #FED90F for the Simpsons. These are approximate study values for educational use, not official brand specifications.
Is Toon Tone free?
Yes. Toon Tone runs in your browser with no sign-up, no download, and no payment. New puzzles are available every day and you can reshuffle as many times as you like.
Is Toon Tone affiliated with the cartoons it features?
No. Toon Tone is an independent fan project for color study. All characters are the property of their respective owners.