Color Groups

Your statistics break your guesses down into eleven color groups, so you can see which kinds of colors you read well and which ones trip you up. Every color belongs to exactly one group.

Colors are sorted in OKLCH, a color space built to match how people see color. It describes a color by its lightness (0% black, 100% white), its chroma (0 for gray, higher for more vivid colors) and its hue, an angle around the color wheel. The rules are checked in this order, and the first one that matches decides the group.

The hue boundaries were fitted to the xkcd color survey, in which over 200,000 people named colors. For 83% of the colors this game shows, the group matches what people in the survey called that color. The groups are also sized so that each gets a fair share of the game's colors; the percentage is how often the game shows a color from that group.

1. Dark9.9%

   Lightness below 38%

2. Light / Pale5.5%

   Lightness 80% or more and chroma below 0.14

3. Gray / Faded5.3%

   Chroma below 0.06

4. Red5.9%

   Hue 14° to 34°

5. Orange / Brown / Yellow11.4%

   Hue 34° to 114°

6. Lime / Bright Green11.7%

   Hue 114° to 165°, lightness 72% or more

7. Green11.2%

   Hue 114° to 165°, lightness below 72%

8. Teal / Cyan3.8%

   Hue 165° to 195°

9. Blue16.6%

   Hue 195° to 295°

10. Purple / Violet9.2%

    Hue 295° to 340° (except light colors from 325° on)

11. Pink / Magenta9.6%

    Hue 340° to 14°, or 325° to 340° with lightness 60% or more

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