The Daily Hue

The Daily Hue is a colour matching game built around art. Each day it features one work from a museum or open collection, such as The Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Rijksmuseum or the Smithsonian, or a piece submitted by a living artist. One colour from that work is hidden, and your job is to match it.

You have three sliders: hue for where the colour sits on the wheel, saturation for how vivid or grey it is, and lightness for how close it is to white or black. The swatch beside them shows your current mix. After each wrong guess, arrows on the sliders tell you whether to go warmer or cooler, more vivid or more muted, lighter or darker. You get five guesses, and the hidden colour is always somewhere in the artwork itself, sometimes a large area and sometimes a small detail.

Whether you match it or run out of guesses, the game shows the answer and opens a gallery of other artworks in a similar colour, along with a short daily write-up about the piece and its maker. You can share a result grid that does not give the colour away.

The daily puzzle is free and needs no account. A free account keeps streaks, favourites and leaderboard scores; past days and the themed collections are unlocked with keys earned through play, ads or the shop. It suits players who like colour games and anyone who wants a small daily look at a real work of art.