«¡Pinta mi mundo de mil colores!» — a colour-by-number book for very small artists
Blanco Bear has a whole world drawn in plain black line art and he cannot colour it in himself — he is, after all, a bear. Eighteen hand-drawn pages, sixteen numbered colours, four tools that each leave their own mark, and no way at all to get it wrong. Nothing ticks unless you ask it to and nothing can fail; the worst thing that can happen is you tap the sponge by accident, and even that is one tap to undo. Every page is printed colour-by-number — each shape shows the number of the colour it is asking for — but the numbers are a suggestion, not a rule, and one button turns them off entirely.
STORY & LORE
A white bear with a colouring problem
Blanco is the site's own osito blanco: white fur, purple nose, speaks only Spanish. That last detail is why every page names itself in Spanish with a small English gloss underneath — the bear is not translating for you, he simply does not know how. The joke the whole book is built on is that Blanco himself is white, so his colour-by-number is 16 — blanco. Colour him in properly and he stays exactly as he started. Most children ignore this immediately and make him green.
Printed, not generated
Every scene is drawn as overlapping shapes and then printed like a real colouring book: each shape is filled with paper white and inked in turn, so a shape in front hides the lines of whatever is behind it. Nothing shows through that should not. Only shapes you can actually see and reach count toward a page, which is why the totals below are smaller than the number of shapes each scene is built from.
La siesta
A small warm tune plays underneath: a major-key pad breathing in and out while a few bells wander over the top, slow enough to colour to. It is synthesised on the spot rather than downloaded, and it has its own switch in the gallery, separate from the sound effects, in case the room is already loud enough.
CHARACTERS & ENEMIES
Blanco BearEl osito que no sabe colorearHEROThe white bear at the centre of all eighteen pages — up a tall tree, in a rocket, under a waterfall, asleep under the stars. He has ears, arms, legs and feet to colour, a muzzle, and a printed face that stays line art so the child chooses everything else.
A second bear who turns up on the picnic page. His colour-by-number is 12 — piel — so the two of them are a lesson in the palette as much as a scene: the same shape, a different number.
HOW IT PLAYS
Colour by number, or don't
Each shape prints the number of the colour it wants, in a soft badge, and every colour in the box is numbered to match. A number only prints where there is honestly room to read one — enough visible area and a wide enough shape — so the page never turns into confetti. The numbers button in the top bar turns them off for free colouring, and the choice is remembered. Numbers are placed biggest shape first and never pile on top of each other: the eight sun rays are one shape with one number on the right-hand ray, and Blanco's muzzle prints its number beside his nose, not on it. A number stays while a shape is the wrong colour (with a red ring) and disappears when it is right.
Colour the sky too
The paper itself is a shape now. Tap anywhere in the margins — around the picture, between the drawings — and the whole background floods with colour, right out to the edges of the screen. Its number sits in a little badge in the top-left corner of the page (7, sky blue, on most daytime pages; 8 for the night ones; 11, light pink, for the party and the bakery).
Blanco is already white
Every part of Blanco — ears, arms, feet, tummy, muzzle — is printed 16: white. Colour him white and he looks exactly the same, and he says so: «¡Pero si ya soy blanco!» — “But I’m already white!”. Only the insides of his ears ask for pink. His friend on «Blanco y Amigos» is a honey-coloured bear and wants 12.
FÁCIL and DIFÍCIL
FÁCIL is one tap: the shape floods with colour, blooming out from exactly where you touched. DIFÍCIL hands you the tool and makes you colour it in by hand — real strokes, which can go outside the lines, because that is what colouring is. A shape counts as done once you have covered about half of it, measured as the area your nib actually swept, so scribbling on one spot will not finish a big shape.
The crayon box drops away
The paper gets the whole screen and the controls float over it. The box of colours is a drawer with a tab showing the colour in your hand — tap it and the colours drop out of sight so you can see what you have made, tap again and they are back. The picture re-fits into whatever space is left, so nothing is ever hidden behind the drawer.
Tall pages and wide pages
Six pages are drawn tall, for a phone held the way phones are held, and twelve are drawn wide. When a page does not match how you are holding the screen the book says so in a small note that never blocks anything, disappears by itself, and vanishes the moment you start colouring.
Nothing is ever lost
Each page saves itself as you go, on its own, and the gallery shows how far you got on every one. Undo steps back through fills and strokes — and through Clear, which is undoable in a single tap, because a small child will hit the sponge by accident.
Finishing a page
Fill every shape and the page throws paper confetti in all sixteen crayon colours, Blanco shouts something delighted in Spanish — «¡Mira qué colores!», «¡Precioso, de verdad!» — and the finished picture sways very gently, pleased with itself.
Achievements
Ten badges to collect, from finishing your first picture to colouring the whole book with every number right. A gold card pops up at the bottom of the screen with a little chime when you earn one, and the badge is saved to your profile on the site. Full list in the table below.
The speedrun (for grown-ups)
The book's only leaderboard is a race: colour all 18 pages with every shape its correct number, from a blank book, as fast as you can. The clock starts with your first colour and only runs while the book is open and on screen — close the tab and it pauses. It shows in a small pill under the top bar while it runs, and in the gallery with how many pages are perfect so far. The moment the last page goes perfect your time is sent to the leaderboard. To try again, press Reiniciar todo (the circular arrow) in the gallery twice — the first press arms it and it shakes red, the second wipes every page and the clock. Your best time and every badge you have earned are kept.
THE TOOL BOX
Four tools, each with its own nib and its own finish. Pick one and every colour in the drawer becomes that tool.
26px
22px
10px
36pxTHE SIXTEEN COLOURS
Numbered 1 to 16, left to right in the drawer. Number 16 is white — which is what Blanco himself is asking for.
#E5342F
#FF7A1F
#FFC42E
#9ADA3C
#23A55A
#17C4C4
#3AA9FF
#2F5FD0
#8B3DFF
#FF5FAE
#FFB3D1
#F0C08A
#9C6B3A
#33313D
#8D8BA0
#FFFFFF
—GALLERY
THE COLOUR KEY
What each number means. Spanish first, because Blanco does not know the English one.
| No. | Español | English | Hex |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rojo | Red | #E5342F |
| 2 | Naranja | Orange | #FF7A1F |
| 3 | Amarillo | Yellow | #FFC42E |
| 4 | Verde lima | Lime | #9ADA3C |
| 5 | Verde | Green | #23A55A |
| 6 | Turquesa | Turquoise | #17C4C4 |
| 7 | Azul cielo | Sky blue | #3AA9FF |
| 8 | Azul | Blue | #2F5FD0 |
| 9 | Morado | Purple | #8B3DFF |
| 10 | Rosa | Pink | #FF5FAE |
| 11 | Rosa claro | Light pink | #FFB3D1 |
| 12 | Piel | Skin | #F0C08A |
| 13 | Café | Brown | #9C6B3A |
| 14 | Negro | Black | #33313D |
| 15 | Gris | Grey | #8D8BA0 |
| 16 | Blanco | White | #FFFFFF |
WHAT EACH TOOL DOES
Nib width is in page units; opacity is how much of the colour lands in one pass.
| Tool | Nib | Opacity | The mark it leaves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crayón · Crayon | 26px | 95% | Waxy speckle — the colour sits thick and a little patchy, like real wax on paper. |
| Marcador · Marker | 22px | 62% | Flat and see-through. Lay one over another and the overlap goes darker. |
| Lápiz · Pencil | 10px | 48% | Thin and soft, with the tooth of the paper showing through. Best for small shapes. |
| Óleo · Oil paint | 36px | 100% | Thick and glossy, with ridges catching the light. The fattest nib in the box. |
TALL PAGES
Drawn upright, for a phone held the normal way. These come first in the gallery.
| Page | English | Shapes |
|---|---|---|
| Blanco y el Árbol Alto | The Tall Tree | 21 |
| Blanco Astronauta | Blanco the Astronaut | 21 |
| La Torre de Helados | The Ice-Cream Tower | 22 |
| Blanco en la Cascada | At the Waterfall | 19 |
| El Girasol Gigante | The Giant Sunflower | 21 |
| La Fiesta de Blanco | Blanco’s Party | 24 |
WIDE PAGES
Drawn landscape. The book will suggest turning your screen for these.
| Page | English | Shapes |
|---|---|---|
| Blanco y su Helado | Blanco and his Ice Cream | 20 |
| Blanco en la Playa | At the Beach | 18 |
| Blanco en el Espacio | Out in Space | 20 |
| Blanco con Globos | Balloons | 18 |
| Blanco en el Jardín | In the Garden | 24 |
| Blanco y Amigos | Blanco and Friends | 29 |
| Blanco Pesca | Gone Fishing | 20 |
| Blanco en Coche | Road Trip | 19 |
| Blanco y la Cometa | Flying a Kite | 19 |
| Blanco Hornea | Baking Day | 24 |
| Blanco Bajo la Lluvia | A Rainy Day | 23 |
| Blanco Duerme | Bedtime | 20 |
ACHIEVEMENTS
Earned once each; the TIX are a one-time reward from the site.
| Badge | How to earn it | Tier | TIX |
|---|---|---|---|
| ¡Mi Primer Dibujo! | Complete 1 drawing | Bronze | 5 |
| ¡Dos Dibujos! | Complete 2 drawings | Bronze | 5 |
| ¡Justo en el Número! | Colour 3 drawings with every shape its right number | Silver | 10 |
| ¡Diez Dibujos! | Complete 10 drawings | Silver | 15 |
| ¡El Libro Entero! | Complete all 18 drawings | Gold | 25 |
| ¡Maestro de los Números! | Colour all 18 drawings with every number right | Legendary | 50 |
| Blanco Sobre Blanco | Paint a whole page white — just like Blanco | Silver | 10 |
| Noche Sin Estrellas | Paint a whole page black | Silver | 10 |
| ¡La Caja Completa! | Use crayón, marcador, lápiz and óleo in one picture | Silver | 10 |
| ¡A Mano Alzada! | Colour by hand in DIFÍCIL (free-draw) mode | Bronze | 5 |
VERSION HISTORY
- Filed under Creative & Toys in the new genre list (it sat under Other, which the new list retires). The game itself is unchanged.
- Fixed taps that did nothing on a laptop: the game sat in a square 452×452 box with the crayon drawer eating the bottom of it, so the picture was a tiny strip. The box is now 16:10, and on any screen that is not tall the crayons sit in a side rail, so the picture is two to three times bigger.
- Numbers are back and readable: sized in screen pixels (never smaller than about 10px), placed biggest shape first so they never overlap, and kept off Blanco's face. The sun's rays are one shape with one number.
- The background is colourable — tap the margins and the whole paper floods, edge to edge. Blanco's joke is intact: every part of him is 16, white, and colouring him white makes him say «¡Pero si ya soy blanco!».
- Less overlap: outlines are drawn under the fill so shapes built from circles (clouds, treetops, flower petals) read as one clean outline; the ground is drawn behind everything so Blanco stands on it instead of being buried in it; balloon and kite strings tuck behind Blanco instead of crossing his face; the balloons moved to his side.
- Retuned shape colours that snapped to muddy crayons: tree crowns are green (were black), balloons red, bunting purple, planets purple and orange, moons and stars yellow, fish orange.
- New font: Fredoka, round and chunky, self-hosted. Themed pink-to-purple scrollbars instead of the grey default.
- Ten achievements and a speedrun leaderboard (whole book, every number right, from scratch) with a Reiniciar todo button that resets the book and the clock but keeps your best time and badges. The old per-tap score board is gone.
- Fixed the bug that made the game unplayable: taps played the fill sound but nothing appeared, and the counter read numbers like 2/65542. Shapes are hit-tested through an off-screen map drawn at CSS size while the art drew at 3x, so thin shapes were almost entirely anti-aliased fringe; fringe pixels decoded to shape indices that were never drawn, and the colour went to a shape that did not exist. The map is now drawn at device resolution, a tap reads a patch, discards the fringe and rejects out-of-range indices.
- Line art now occludes: each shape is filled and inked in turn instead of filling everything and then inking everything, so you no longer see the hidden half of every circle crossing through what is in front of it.
- Only shapes you can actually reach count toward a page, measured from the page's own geometry — the total no longer changes when you turn the phone, and every page can reach 100%.
- Finishing a page now throws confetti, congratulates you in Spanish and sets the picture gently swaying.
- One input path for finger, mouse and pen: a tap and a click are the same event by construction. Holding and sweeping fills as you go.
- The rotate note no longer sits on the paper as a click target — it could swallow a press — and no longer appears on a laptop that merely happens to have a touchscreen.
- Clear is undoable. Blanco is white (16) and now has arms, legs and feet, and is bigger in every scene. Sun rays and flower petals fattened: thin shapes were not just ugly, they were impossible to tap.
- Printed like a real colouring book: one ink colour on white paper, a heavier line, and Blanco's face as line art instead of pre-coloured. The dark-background pages get the sky as a shape to colour instead.
- Colour-by-number added — sixteen numbered colours, and every shape prints the number it wants, taken from the colour the shape was originally drawn with.
- Four tools with their own nib, opacity and grain: crayon, marker, pencil and oil paint.
- Every emoji replaced with a hand-drawn icon set in the same line art as the pages.
- A siesta tune, with its own switch.
- The paper takes the whole screen; the controls float over it and the drawing fits the space that is left.
- The colours became a drawer that drops out of the way.
- A gallery of all the books instead of opening on page one, with a live thumbnail of your own copy of each.
- Six new tall pages for a phone held upright, alongside the twelve wide ones, and a note telling you when to turn the screen.
- FÁCIL and DIFÍCIL.
- Fixed a bug where turning the phone sideways left a blank screen: the canvas could push the page taller than the window and never shrink back, so the whole book ended up below the fold.
- The flat swatches became real crayons in a crayon box.
- First catalogued version: twelve wide scenes, a twelve-colour palette of round swatches, tap to fill.