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READ THE CITY IN COLOUR

A machine looks at a city and answers with five colours. Then it hands the brush to you. Four rounds, one window, no correct answers.

There are no rules. Only looking.

The window · live palette Shanghai
#B9BFC0
#5C6B73
#C8A27A
#D94F3D
#1F2A33

Four rounds below

01
the machine looks

Any city, five colours

Type a place — a capital, a village, the street you grew up on. The machine has no photographs. It reads the name, the way you would read a stranger's handwriting.

or try

river haze#B9BFC0

wet granite#5C6B73

plane-tree bark#C8A27A

shop-sign red#D94F3D

night water#1F2A33

reading

Shanghai reads cool and layered — a grey city that keeps one red for itself.

02
the eye guesses

Whose colours are these?

Five colours, no name. Cities are more recognisable than we admit.

0 / 0 read correctly
03
the hand tunes

Mix the colour in the sentence

Someone describes a colour in words. You have three dials. Find it.

“The green-grey of rain on old stone, one hour after it stopped.”

Yours

The sentence

04
the crowd adds

Put your colour on the wall

Every city is really thousands of small colours nobody photographed. Add one you have actually seen.

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6 colours on the wall