Think you've got a good eye for color? We did too until we gave the Color matching game over at Method of Action a try. Things start out rather easily, as your first task is to mirror the displayed color by locating its position on the color wheel with your mouse or trackpad. Before long though, you'll be picking out complementary, analogous, ternary, and even quaternary combinations. Without a background in design, we managed an 8.9 on our first go-through; the game offers some leniency to account for variances in display output. There's also a colorblind-friendly version of the utility that intuitively uses shapes as a substitute for primary colors and morphs their appearance as you move along the wheel.
The Color tool was created by Maria Munuera and Mark MacKay as part of their upcoming peer-to-peer education course. Method of Action will cover three subjects — design, entrepreneurship, and gardening — when it launches this spring. Each topic will span 50 "missions", a variety of tasks which will be judged by more experienced community members. With each passing grade, users will be able to access additional missions, eventually reaching a level of expertise that will see them reviewing work themselves. If typography is more your game, don't forget about KernType, another of the duo's addicting games.

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has anyone else noticed that the latest Chrome dev (18) makes web apps like these a black screen?
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 5:15 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Just gave it a go and got 7.2
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 5:42 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Hah! 9.2! I’m totally completely terrible when it comes to color selection of things, but apparently I’m decent at matching them together?
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 5:49 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
8.0… I kinda got lazy on the last one, the quaternary one…
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 5:49 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Gives me a headache.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 6:04 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I got an 8.9 on my first shot. Last couple parts started to get confusing I could probably improve.
Hue: 10
Saturation: 10
Complimentary: 10
Analogous: 8
Ternary: 8
Quaternary: 8
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 6:06 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
A game, eh? – Challenge accepted.
…Annnd apparently I suck at complimentary colors…
Hue: 10
Saturation: 8
Complementary: 5
Analogous: 10
Ternary: 10
Quaternary: 10
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 6:07 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
You may not suck at complementary. That’s when the user interface gets harder to comprehend and you have to figure out which color you are controlling. In fact, this doesn’t teach me how to understand color so much as it teaches me to comprehend which part of the pie I’m controlling.
IMHO, This is a better “test”: http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77&Lang=en
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 6:19 PM EST reply Recommend (3) Flag actions
Oh man, yeah that is a good one. I got a perfect 0 on it! :) Although it was quite a PITA.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 6:46 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Yeah I got a 4 on Complementary and a 10 on the first two and then 8’s on the last three. I think it was because I was just really confused to begin with thinking I was supposed to have the opposite color on each not match them.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 6:20 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Complementary was my worst also:
Hue: 10
Saturation: 7
Complementary: 6
Analogous: 10
Ternary: 9
Quaternary: 8
Overall score: 8.3
This was on my second try.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012 | 1:23 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
8.7 and im a designer. i feel like i shouldve done better
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 6:14 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Got an 8.0 the first time but I got kind of confused as to what was happening as you went on, second time I got a 9.8 though.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 6:33 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
The hardest part is figuring out which selection circle corresponds to which part of the inner circle. I couldn’t figure it out for the middle 2 bits and did horribly on those at first (0 and 1). Once I figured out how to tell quickly, I got an 8.8 on my 2nd try. Not bad; interesting game.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 6:38 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I have no problem with color. How the hell do you use the mouse??? im evening trying the touch screen…WTFF..i cant believe i cant make sense of it. someone . please. pointing to the upper left of the screen desaturates? why? arrgh…
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 7:29 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Uh… going around the wheel changes the hue, going toward or away from the center changes the saturation of the selected hue.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012 | 4:14 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
8, 8, 7, 9, 9, 9. Average 8.2. Now that I know the controls better though I might be able to do better.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 7:40 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
10, 10, 4, 10, 4, 8. Average 7.7 I just jumped into it with out knowing what I was doing so I think this is an accurate score.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 7:49 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Total: 9.4
Hue: 10
Saturation: 10
Complementary: 10
Analogous: 9
Ternary: 8
Quaternary: 10
Yay eyes!
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 7:53 PM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
I got an overall 8.8. I closed my screen before recording the individual results but I believe it was something like:
Hue: 10
Saturation: 10
Complementary: 9
Analogous: 10
Ternary: 8
Quaternary: 6
It was difficult figuring out how to move the cursor to select a color with Quaternary…
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 8:40 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
7.5, figuring out how to move the double cursor for the first time in the Complementary stage was tricky
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 8:51 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
9.2
I think it would be a more effective test if they showed you your target color alone, rather than overlaid with the color you’re hovering over.
With the overlay, you can just get in the ballpark and then just move the cursor around until it looks right.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 9:19 PM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
9.2 on my third try.
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 | 10:47 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
8.0 on my first attempt, 8.3 on my second. I’m gonna give my eyes a break for a few minutes then see if I can keep improving.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012 | 1:26 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Game was making me freak out AHHHH! :)
Posted on Jan 25, 2012 | 2:23 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
10, 10, 3, 10, 6, 9
apparently I can’y do complementary colours – or the game has a rubbish UI ;)
Posted on Jan 25, 2012 | 11:02 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
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