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Organized Sardinia

#648e6b
Notes

Organized Sardinia (#648E6B) is a true green 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 (130°, 17%, 47%) places it in the muted 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#648e6b
RGB
rgb(100, 142, 107)
HSL
hsl(130, 17%, 47%)
HWB
hwb(130 39% 44%)
OKLCH
oklch(60.6% 0.070 149.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4273 0.5524 0.4310)
HSV
hsv(130, 30%, 56%)
LAB
lab(55.19% -21.97 14.12)
LCH
lch(55.19% 26.12 147.27)
CMYK
cmyk(30%, 0%, 25%, 44%)

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.

Sardinia
noun

The Italian Mediterranean island — and the saturated turquoise of Sardinian Costa Smeralda (Emerald Coast) at Cala di Volpe and Spiaggia del Principe. Sardinia refers to a Costa Smeralda lagoon: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the optical clarity of cold Mediterranean water.

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.

#648e6b
Original
#8f8769
Protanopia
#88826d
Deuteranopia
#5e8c84
Tritanopia
#838383
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
3.73:1
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
5.62:1

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
##648E6B
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4273 0.5524 0.4310)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.070

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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