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Hue TalesScreenshot Saturday

A walk around Palette Bay, one picture at a time

· The Turbo Pudding team · 3 min read

An orange striped cat lying on a wooden windowsill between pink curtains, a pot of red flowers beside her and a purple ball of yarn hanging down, one gray cell marked 16 left on the floor

Hue Tales is our color-by-number app for kids, and it has a story. The Gray Mist rolled in from the sea and drank every color of Palette Bay. Pip, a little chameleon, only just kept his own. Every picture you finish brings one more piece of the island back, and Pip gets a little brighter along with it.

For this Screenshot Saturday, we took a walk around the island: one stop for each chapter, with Pip’s words for every picture.

The Gray Harbor

The lighthouse went dark first, so that’s where the story starts. When it’s done, Pip is delighted: “The light is on! Ships will find their way home tonight.”

A red and white striped lighthouse on gray rocks and a small sailboat on a blue sea under a peach sunset, a few gray cells marked 13 still left in the water
Searched “color by number”. Thirteen cells of sea to go.

Cinnamon Lane

Every morning, Mr. Bun used to bake rainbow buns here. Then the buns went gray, and nobody wanted them. Fix breakfast, and the whole lane wakes up, Biscuit the bakery cat included. “She purrs in color now.”

Blossom Gardens

Pip was born here, under a tulip leaf. The third leaf from the left, to be exact. Without color, the bees can’t find the flowers, so there is a lot to do. Down in the koi pond, the water ripples again. “The big white one is called Admiral.”

Koi fish in red, orange, white, black and yellow swimming between green lily pads and ripples in a turquoise pond, a pink water lily on one pad and a few numbered cells left by the stones at the edges
Typed “coloring game for kids”. The koi were here first.

Whispering Woods

The trees here talk, but only in whispers, and the mist made them so quiet you can hardly hear them. In a clearing, someone is curled up asleep. “Shh… Rusty is asleep. She dreams in color now.”

An orange fox asleep with her eyes closed on green grass in a dark forest, red mushrooms with white spots and yellow and orange leaves around her
Rusty searched “calm coloring game” and fell asleep halfway.

Starlight Observatory

Long ago, people came to the old observatory to count the stars. Now the stars are gray and nobody can find them, so you light them up one by one. Up here lives a very patient astronomer. “Meet Stella. She has watched the sky for two hundred years.” When the chapter is done, she says thank you in tortoise: very, very slowly.

A green tortoise in a red pointed hat with a gold star and a monocle, standing on a green hill next to a telescope, under a dark blue sky full of yellow stars
Search: “color by number with a story”. Stella saw it coming.

Lantern Festival

Down in the valley, everyone is getting ready for the Lantern Festival. Every year the lanterns glow all night long, but this year the mist got there first, and every lantern is gray. Lumi is on the case. “Meet Lumi. Her paws are always covered in paint.”

A gray raccoon with a black mask and a striped tail sitting at a wooden table and holding an orange paper lantern, red and yellow lanterns hanging from the ceiling and a window onto a purple night sky behind her
Typed “cozy coloring app”. Lumi brought lanterns.

Up the mountain

This is Snowy, the snow leopard cub from Snowcap Peak. It’s so cold up there that even words come out as little clouds. Footprints in the snow lead all the way to the top, and Pip soon finds out whose they are: “Those footprints were his!”

A white snow leopard cub with gray spots, turquoise eyes and a red scarf sitting on a snowy rock in front of white and lilac mountains
Searched “winter coloring pages”. Snowy brought his own scarf.

What waits at the summit, and what the Gray Mist really is, we’ll leave for you to find out.

Calm by design

There are 168 pictures in all, across eight chapters, and the gallery is open from the start. There are no countdowns, no lives and no waiting, and a wrong color never sticks, so you can’t spoil a picture. When you finish one, you can replay it in three styles, save it as a video or send it as a postcard. And a new picture arrives every day.

Hue Tales is free in your browser at hue-tales.com, on a computer, tablet or phone. More about it is on the Hue Tales page.

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