Study Bender's Metal color in Toon Tone: #89A7A9, RGB 137, 167, 169, HSB 184°, 19%, 66%, and common wrong guesses.
Bender from Futurama (1999) uses #89A7A9 for Metal in this Toon Tone prompt. RGB is 137, 167, 169; HSB is 184°, 19%, 66%; HSL is 184°, 16%, 60%.
#89A7A9
184°, 16%, 60%
Hue leans warmer than the stored answer.
Hue leans cooler than the stored answer.
Saturation drops below the answer.
Brightness climbs past the target.
Brightness falls under the target.
This is a cyan family color with HSB 184°, 19%, 66%. It has low saturation, so players often make it too vivid; it also has a middle brightness, so small lightness changes matter.
The stored answer is useful because it turns a remembered animation color into measurable values. In play, you only need to match the visible target part, but this page exposes the underlying color model for study.
Read the values as player advice, not just technical trivia. HSB 184°, 19%, 66% tells you the order of decisions: land in the cyan family, decide how strong the color should feel, then set the lightness. RGB 137, 167, 169 is useful for exact reproduction, but HSB is usually better while you are actively guessing.
Start by naming the broad family: cyan. Move hue until the live recolor lands in that family, then decide whether the prompt looks too pale, too intense, too bright, or too shadowed.
For Bender, the important cue is Metal rather than the full character palette. Keeping the target narrow helps your memory choose one answer instead of averaging several colors from the design.
Before you move a slider, say the remembered color in a sentence: "Bender Metal is a cyan color that feels ..." Then fill in vivid, dusty, bright, dark, soft, or neutral. That sentence gives your first guess a direction and makes the result card easier to learn from.
Use this Bender page after a run, not during one. The useful loop is to guess first, read the reveal, then open the study page for a color that surprised you. That keeps Toon Tone a memory game while still giving you a concrete way to improve.
For a second pass, compare Bender with related characters below. Colors in the same family can still have very different slider behavior: a loud yellow, a dusty yellow, and a nearly neutral gray-yellow are not interchangeable once scoring starts.
