Start with hue.
Lock the color family first — yellow, pink, blue — before you touch saturation or brightness. Most players overshoot saturation: TV cartoons read as “vivid” in memory, but the actual values sit lower than your gut suggests. Dial it back a notch. And when in doubt about brightness, lean slightly darker — screens are calibrated to overexpose pure cartoon colors, so the reference frame almost always sits below where you'd guess.


