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Organized Sinii

#6a7fb7
Notes

Organized Sinii (#6A7FB7) is a true azure 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 (224°, 35%, 57%) 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 amber. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#6a7fb7
RGB
rgb(106, 127, 183)
HSL
hsl(224, 35%, 57%)
HWB
hwb(224 42% 28%)
OKLCH
oklch(60.3% 0.089 268.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4318 0.4956 0.7007)
HSV
hsv(224, 42%, 72%)
LAB
lab(53.67% 7.08 -31.90)
LCH
lch(53.67% 32.67 282.51)
CMYK
cmyk(42%, 31%, 0%, 28%)

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.

Sinii
noun

The Russian word for deep blue — distinct from goluboy (light/sky blue) in Russian color vocabulary, which (uniquely among major languages) names two separate basic blue categories. The color refers to a sinii-painted Russian Orthodox church dome: a saturated, slightly cool very deep blue with the matte finish of distemper-and-pigment paint.

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.

#6a7fb7
Original
#6b84b9
Protanopia
#647db6
Deuteranopia
#508a93
Tritanopia
#7f7f7f
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
3.94:1
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
5.33:1

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
##6A7FB7
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4318 0.4956 0.7007)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.089

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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