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Organized Tit

#2f6c5f
Notes

Organized Tit (#2F6C5F) is a deep teal with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (167°, 39%, 30%) places it in the balanced band at a dark lightness. It works well as a headline, icon, or deep background in an otherwise light layout, pairing cleanly with cream, bone, and warm neutrals. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#2f6c5f
RGB
rgb(47, 108, 95)
HSL
hsl(167, 39%, 30%)
HWB
hwb(167 18% 58%)
OKLCH
oklch(48.7% 0.067 177.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2478 0.4181 0.3743)
HSV
hsv(167, 56%, 42%)
LAB
lab(41.46% -23.21 1.31)
LCH
lch(41.46% 23.25 176.77)
CMYK
cmyk(56%, 0%, 12%, 58%)

Etymology

Organized
adjective

Greek órganon, instrument / tool — past-participle of organize. As a color modifier, organized implies a clear-and-coordinated-and-systematic quality where the hue carries the visual register of well-coordinated-and-classified arrangement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to orderly and methodical in usage.

Tit
noun

The family Paridae — small woodland songbirds — particularly Cyanistes caeruleus (Eurasian blue tit) whose males display turquoise crowns and yellow underparts. The color refers to a male blue tit's crown: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the satin finish of structural-and-pigment feather color.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#2f6c5f
Original
#68665e
Protanopia
#5f5f60
Deuteranopia
#0c6d68
Tritanopia
#5e5e5e
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon White
6.12:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
3.43:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##2F6C5F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2478 0.4181 0.3743)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.067

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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