Learn colour by playing with it.
Colour Studio helps design students, educators and curious makers discover how colour behaves. Arrange coloured papers, explore visual illusions and solve design challenges that turn colour theory into something you can see and use.
PLAY YOUR WAY THROUGH COLOUR
Explore 12 missions across three creative rooms:
• The sorting room: arrange papers by lightness and colour intensity.
• The illusion room: change the surroundings and discover how a colour’s appearance shifts.
• The print room: choose colour combinations that make poster text readable.
Each completed mission adds a composition to your personal exhibition. Experiment at your own pace, with hints, undo and opportunities to try again. There are no timers or lives to lose.
KEEP DISCOVERING
Try three daily colour questions: same or different, which is lighter, and find the odd one out. Read the explanations, explore how backgrounds change appearances and share your result.
Continue in the endless sorting room, with untimed practice in lightness, chroma and hue. Discover the 42 papers in your paper box by using them in experiments and saved work.
ONE CONNECTED LEARNING PATH
The Learn map brings twelve guided steps and every other exercise together across eight areas: perception, the nature of colour, human vision, colour attributes, colour relationships, colour interaction, meaning in design, and screen to print.
Follow the suggested path or explore freely. Time estimates help you choose an activity, and Today gives you a clear next step. Short review cards bring ideas back over time, with optional reminders.
Hints offer guidance in stages. Optional suggestions use your practice to offer another angle, with the evidence available for you to inspect. This processing happens on your device.
FROM SCREEN TO PRINT
Your screen is not the standard. Explore press-gamut limits, how paper affects colour and why samples that match under one light can differ under another.
Learn how tolerance, physical references and proofing support colour decisions, then complete a practical brief that ends in a colour specification. Print and lighting previews are teaching estimates, not production proofs.
CREATE AND TAKE YOUR PALETTES FURTHER
Give four papers a role in the Palette Stylist, then try them on a poster, packaging, a textile, a room and an app screen. Compare greyscale, colour-vision simulations and print estimates.
Explore colours from a photograph with the Fall leaf study. Export palettes for Procreate, Adobe, GIMP and Inkscape, copy CSS and hex values, or share a Colour Studio palette through AirDrop or Files.
FIND THE IDEA YOU NEED
Search 54 colour terms, all 42 papers, exercises, Play missions and your own Notebook. Everyday words, alternative spellings and typo support help you find a useful starting point.
KEEP YOUR DISCOVERIES
Save studies, palettes and reflections in your Notebook. Share selected work for discussion or critique, export a backup and restore it when needed. Deleted Notebook work stays recoverable for 30 days.
FOR EDUCATORS
Share steps, exercises and reference entries through links and QR codes. Projector mode displays the colour plate while controls stay on your phone.
An optional classroom pilot supports learning checks. Results stay on each device until the learner chooses to share them.
LOOK CLOSELY, LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE
Colour Studio values personal observation while recognising that displays, viewing conditions and perception vary.
Larger text, reduced motion, paper-name labels and appearance options support comfortable exploration.
Build your eye for colour, one discovery at a time.
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