Rodney
kottke.orgThe Color Game. “Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color. https://dialed.gg/
Emsquared
manes
Drew Pickard
Pete Ashton@kottke 43.06 - the darker blue/greens are easier, I think. https://dialed.gg/?c=J3GRBQ
Adam Wilbert@kottke My color memory is a 44.1/50. Please do worse so I feel better. https://dialed.gg/?c=NX99Q7
Marvin
Licho@marv42 My color memory is a 36.4/50. I did worse so you can feel better ;)
https://dialed.gg/?c=YTE252
Mad Argon 
🍊𝕎𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕆𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕕 ❄️My color memory is a 42.8/50. Please do worse so I feel better. https://dialed.gg/?c=PT9UTW
Wm.sonI got you covered.
Femme Malheureuse@kottke Interesting. My particular version of color blindness didn't affect me as much as I expected. I tend to perceive colors on this device as lighter (more white) than they are, though.
44.10
Lau@femme_mal @kottke Very interesting, I'm also colorblind and at first I thought it'll be a nightmare but the game/test is really funny.
Got a 34 and rather proud, way better than what I expected
Got a 34 and rather proud, way better than what I expected
@alicesutaren That's fascinating!
I have a very narrow problem based on yellow; I was conscious looking at these test colors that I had to work around that element (basically relying on cyan and magenta in print terms). It could explain why my guesses were lighter. I wish I knew what my grandmother would have seen given her complete color blindness.
@femme_mal Your score is pretty impressive! I have issues with red mostly, as I usually can't tell purple/blue, green/brown, light gray/light pink, etc.
Are you also a women assigned by birth? I am, it's funny if we are also both girls, first time I encounter another one but a man.
@alicesutaren Yup, I'm AFAB. I know we're outliers along with my grandmother.
My daughter may also have inherited it though it's not quite as pronounced as mine - at least I thought so until she gave me a seafoam green throw this Christmas and told me she thought it matched the blue in my living room. LOL Surprised I could tell the difference and shocked she couldn't.
@femme_mal Sorry for my clumsy english.
I have a son, he's 100% colorblind because of me, even if his father is not. And I have a daughter and she's not colorblind, because her father is not colorblind.
She is "porteuse saine" of the gene, I don't know how to say it in english. When I was younger, some people didn't believe me when I told them I was colorblind because to them it was so rare, it wasn't possible for girls to be. I realised I was colorblind in late highschool, when I met a friend (boy) who was like me, and we shared our experiences.
@alicesutaren porteuse saine = healthy (unaffected) carrier.
Your daughter may pass the gene onto her children as my mother did to me. I know it is the Finnish side that was the source as my grandmother was from Finland, but I wonder if the French-Canadian side of my mother's family may have ensured she was a porteuse saine, too.
*shrug* Who can say?
@alicesutaren by the way, your English is just fine. (•‿•)
@femme_mal Thank you!
Yes, it's true, my mother was healthy carrier and passed it to me.
It's really interesting to track the source. It seems my grandfather has the gene, but not everyone in my family was affected. I have a cousin and my brother who are colorblind, but all my cousins girls, are not.
FlippoFlip 🏴☠️@kottke 43.83 pretty fun. 🙂
InarticulateQuilter
Frank Skornia@inarticulatequilter I can only think of this scene from Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (I love this scene)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s33ScN4D-HU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s33ScN4D-HU
Myrna Loy Chooses Her Paint Scheme
@fskornia 😂 sounds like every experience with a painter I’ve ever had
Flamboyantes Terres@inarticulatequilter
Got 44.4 ! Thought I'd do worst, I think the game is a bit generous
A lot of my job is choosing colors, but my hobby are pretty colorful too 😎
Got 44.4 ! Thought I'd do worst, I think the game is a bit generous
A lot of my job is choosing colors, but my hobby are pretty colorful too 😎
@Flamboyantes_Terres woohoo! I need to take you to the fabric store with me from now on
@inarticulatequilter
As long as you don't want me to name them, pretty awful at remembering that 😂
I work in mysterious ways (by that I mean squinting really hard until I know I got the right color)
CTGT
AC Nelson
Deborah Pickett@inarticulatequilter @kottke I’d play it again if it had a way to turn off both the sound effects and the snark.
Rayendal@inarticulatequilter @kottke That game is pretty snotty, but interesting. 40.40 for me.
@Rayendal I’m loving how all the people in my Mastodon circle of friends are in the same ballpark score-wise. There’s a reason we’ve all found each other
ÓsQar🔻🇵🇸
Kasanwa-Solane are hugging its Octo Friend@kottke that was fun!
Got a 43.59 as my score, playing on my pixel 9 pro with colors set to "natural".
Gonna try it again with the other color settings on it :3
Got a 43.59 as my score, playing on my pixel 9 pro with colors set to "natural".
Gonna try it again with the other color settings on it :3
with "adaptive" color, got a 37.07
42.22 on "saturated"
score of 44.12 on my Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel, under Win11
this machine's display is color calibrated at the factory, but its a 5 year old machine
this machine's display is color calibrated at the factory, but its a 5 year old machine
same hardware + software, but hard mode, got 41.79 (also out of 50)
Sebastian Crane 🏳️⚧️@kottke 41.9/50! I think I did better at the blues than I did at the reds.
Klara
Siva Kalyan 
@kottke 41.55. It’s hard to get the hue right for unsaturated colours.
Steve Jackson
naelyn_moon
🍀March Mastodoness🍀
Reay@kottke @TheBreadmonkey Pretty cool. I got 39 as well. 🙂
Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman@kottke This is awesome, and yes tougher than I thought, tricky too , and I am suspicious that it maybe purposely show a different colour when matching ;-)
don
Chris Kolbu@kottke 46; first go on my phone.
Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️🌈@kottke wow… yet another thing to prove to me that I’m not really human and definitely have photographic memory 😹
Alsy
Noisytoot
fak
Amelia Rochko@kottke 47.05/50 I just like colours... I think that knowing different names besides the basic ones helps because I could articulate in my head what colour I was looking at.
mjr
Wouter LindenhofMy color memory is a 44.7/50. Please do worse so I feel better. https://dialed.gg/?c=3NABQD
I just “eyeballed” it. 😁
Liz@kottke so, I used to look after TV cameras for a living. Whilst I know about the lack of objective colorimetry we have, we can learn some stuff. The way you do this with cameras is to have a preview switch in the remote control panel that allows you to directly bounce between them, and adjust colours on the fly. I retired in 2020, so I guess I'm out of practice!
tiny frights@kottke 47.41/50, which frankly shocked me.
Brad Rosenheim@kottke 41.4, but not near perfect on any one color. I like the trash talking, though.
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥Eeek what a fun game, thanks!
I got 9.11, 8.67, 9.13, 5.30, and 8.52.
I feel like doing this again!