Color tones
The crossword clue "Color tones" is answered by HUES, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HUES
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HUES answer page.
Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HUES
Every other clue in this collection answered by HUES, most used first.
- Shades - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
- Colors - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Tints - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Colorations - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Tones - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Shades of color - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Palette array - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Spectrum bands - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Color variations - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Color shades - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Palette choices - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Rainbow components - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Water color - AQUA, used 108 times
- Horse color - ROAN, used 89 times
- Lacking color - PALE, used 85 times
- Lose color - FADE, used 85 times
- Color - TINT, used 63 times
- Neutral color - ECRU, used 49 times
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