Color Swatches could use some more... colors

A quick perusal of the color chip samples at the local hardware store can be daunting, let alone all the colors in the Pantone library.

I had hoped Color Swatches would help make sense of all those different shades of gray, and every other color.

The heart of the app is a color matching game. You are given a name, and four colors from which to choose the one matching the name. Unfortunately the exercise is made laughably easy by the color options given. For example, you might get "Forest Green" as  the color name, and of your four choices, only one will be any shade of green. Hint: that's the forest green.

It feels more like an exercise in discovering there are more names for colors than you realized than a learning tool, and I doubt the iPhone screen is color-accurate enough to use it to accurately match colors you find everyday.

Here's a look:

Color Swatches in the App Store.