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Orderly Naruto

#6c95ce
Notes

Orderly Naruto (#6C95CE) 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 (215°, 50%, 62%) 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
#6c95ce
RGB
rgb(108, 149, 206)
HSL
hsl(215, 50%, 62%)
HWB
hwb(215 42% 19%)
OKLCH
oklch(66.3% 0.097 256.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4574 0.5799 0.7896)
HSV
hsv(215, 48%, 81%)
LAB
lab(60.90% 1.49 -33.65)
LCH
lch(60.90% 33.68 272.53)
CMYK
cmyk(48%, 28%, 0%, 19%)

Etymology

Orderly
adjective

Latin ōrdō, order — adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, orderly implies a clear-and-arranged-and-organized quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-ordered-and-classified placement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and organized in usage.

Naruto
noun

The Naruto Strait between Honshū and Shikoku — and the deep blue of the strait's whirlpool waters at peak tidal flow. Naruto-iro refers to the deep azure of the strait. The color refers to mid-depth Naruto Strait water at high tide: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the optical complexity of high-velocity tidal flow over deep channel.

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.

#6c95ce
Original
#7f98d1
Protanopia
#748fcd
Deuteranopia
#42a2a9
Tritanopia
#909090
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
3.08:1
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
6.83:1

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
##6C95CE
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4574 0.5799 0.7896)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.097

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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