A brand color sorting game
Color Ladder deals five brand colors and asks you to order them — darkest to brightest, or dullest to most saturated. You build the ladder by tapping swatches in order, which works as well on a phone as on a desktop.
It sounds trivial until two mid-tone blues land in the same round. Judging relative brightness across different hues is a classic hard problem in color perception, and it is exactly what this mode turns into a game.
How to play Color Ladder
Each game has five rounds. A round shows five brand swatches and a sorting rule. Tap the swatches in the order you believe is correct; tap a placed swatch to take it back. Submit to see the true order and earn 20 points per correctly placed color.
A perfect ladder scores 100 per round and 500 per game. The result text keeps the familiar spoiler-free square format for sharing and friend duels.
Why sorting colors trains your eye
Comparing brightness within the same hue family is easy. Comparing a saturated red against a muted teal is not — the saturated color usually looks brighter than it measures. Color Ladder makes that bias visible round after round.
The game computes true order using perceptual lightness, the same Lab color space used across LogoColorQuiz scoring, so the answers reflect how color actually measures rather than how it shouts.