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Organized Frock Lagoon

#349ccd
Notes

Organized Frock Lagoon (#349CCD) is a true cyan with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (199°, 60%, 50%) 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
#349ccd
RGB
rgb(52, 156, 205)
HSL
hsl(199, 60%, 50%)
HWB
hwb(199 20% 20%)
OKLCH
oklch(65.5% 0.118 233.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3269 0.6034 0.7861)
HSV
hsv(199, 75%, 80%)
LAB
lab(60.70% -13.19 -33.56)
LCH
lch(60.70% 36.06 248.54)
CMYK
cmyk(75%, 24%, 0%, 20%)

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.

Frock
modifier

Old French froc, monk's-habit-or-loose-garment. As a color modifier, frock implies a monk's-habit-and-pinafore-and-day-frock quality, the visual register of Benedictine-monk's-frock-and-Edwardian-day-frock hand-monk's-habit-and-pinafore-and-day-frock Benedictine-monk's-frock-and-Edwardian-day-frock-and-pinafore frock-and-monk's-habit-and-pinafore surfaces under Benedictine-monk's-frock-and-Edwardian-day-frock-and-pinafore Cluny-Abbey-and-Edwardian-tea-room habit-and-day-dress-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to gown and cope in usage.

Lagoon
noun

A shallow body of saltwater partially or fully enclosed by a barrier — coral atoll lagoons in the Pacific, Venice's Laguna Veneta, the Florida Keys' backcountry. The color refers to the average reflectance of a calm tropical lagoon at midday: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical clarity of shallow water over white sand. Brighter than reef, cooler than aquamarine, with the postcard weight of a Pacific atoll seen from above.

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.

#349ccd
Original
#849bcf
Protanopia
#6f8ccc
Deuteranopia
#00a9ad
Tritanopia
#898989
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).
AA Largeon White
3.10:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
6.78:1

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
##349CCD
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3269 0.6034 0.7861)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.118

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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