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Organized Morningglory

#306e8a
Notes

Organized Morningglory (#306E8A) is a true cyan 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 (199°, 48%, 36%) places it in the balanced band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary orange. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#306e8a
RGB
rgb(48, 110, 138)
HSL
hsl(199, 48%, 36%)
HWB
hwb(199 19% 46%)
OKLCH
oklch(51.0% 0.077 230.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2528 0.4259 0.5303)
HSV
hsv(199, 65%, 54%)
LAB
lab(43.67% -10.78 -21.30)
LCH
lch(43.67% 23.87 243.16)
CMYK
cmyk(65%, 20%, 0%, 46%)

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.

Morningglory
noun

The family Convolvulaceae — particularly Ipomoea purpurea, the climbing annual whose blue-purple morning-blooming trumpet flowers close by midday. The color refers to a fresh Ipomoea flower in early morning: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the satin finish of single-day trumpet bloom.

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.

#306e8a
Original
#606c8b
Protanopia
#53638a
Deuteranopia
#007677
Tritanopia
#636363
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
5.64:1
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
3.72:1

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
##306E8A
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2528 0.4259 0.5303)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.077

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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