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Organized Diadem

#6b6aa2
Notes

Organized Diadem (#6B6AA2) is a true blue 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 (241°, 23%, 53%) 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 yellow. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#6b6aa2
RGB
rgb(107, 106, 162)
HSL
hsl(241, 23%, 53%)
HWB
hwb(241 42% 36%)
OKLCH
oklch(54.9% 0.086 284.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4189 0.4158 0.6196)
HSV
hsv(241, 35%, 64%)
LAB
lab(47.03% 14.05 -30.06)
LCH
lch(47.03% 33.18 295.05)
CMYK
cmyk(34%, 35%, 0%, 36%)

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.

Diadem
noun

Greek diádēma, bound-around — the imperial-and-royal headband adopted into Western regalia from the Persian Achaemenid royal kidaris. The British Imperial State Crown's diadem features the deep-blue Stuart Sapphire. Diadem color refers to the Stuart Sapphire face of the Imperial State Crown's diadem: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the glassy finish of polished Ceylon sapphire under display lighting.

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.

#6b6aa2
Original
#5971a4
Protanopia
#576ea1
Deuteranopia
#5d747e
Tritanopia
#6e6e6e
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
4.99:1
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
4.21:1

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
##6B6AA2
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4189 0.4158 0.6196)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.086

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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