Country flags are familiar. Their exact colors are not.

How to play the flag color quiz

1. Choose the daily challenge for the same five flags as other players, or start a random practice set.
2. Study the full flag and focus on the named region while the countdown runs.
3. After that region turns gray, adjust hue, saturation, and lightness until it matches your memory.
4. Compare your reconstruction with the reference and receive up to 100 points per flag.

This is different from a standard “guess the country” quiz. The country name remains visible. The challenge is remembering whether a familiar blue was deep or bright, whether a red leaned warm or cool, and how light a yellow or orange appeared.

Twenty-four locally drawn flags

The first collection includes vertical and horizontal tricolors, two-band designs, central discs, Nordic crosses, and the square Swiss flag. The SVG artwork is generated locally rather than embedded from another quiz site. Europe has the largest group in this initial set because repeated stripe and cross structures make useful color comparisons; Asia and Oceania introduce disc and field layouts.

The game changes only one color region at a time. Other shapes and colors remain visible as context, just as the character game keeps the rest of a toon visible while one scarf, jacket, cloak, or body color is rebuilt.

Why an exact flag color can vary

A flag may be specified using a print system, textile standard, legal description, or construction sheet rather than one universal screen value. Websites and displays also convert colors differently. Toon Shade therefore uses documented-looking digital approximations for consistent gameplay, not a claim that one HSL triplet is the only valid national specification.

The score compares the game’s reference and your selected screen colors in Lab space using Delta E 76. It measures distance inside this game consistently, but it is not an official flag-manufacturing test.

Flag color quiz FAQ