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Organized Bothnia

#71e5fe
Notes

Organized Bothnia (#71E5FE) is a soft 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 (191°, 99%, 72%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#71e5fe
RGB
rgb(113, 229, 254)
HSL
hsl(191, 99%, 72%)
HWB
hwb(191 44% 0%)
OKLCH
oklch(86.4% 0.110 213.8)
HSV
hsv(191, 56%, 100%)
LAB
lab(85.35% -26.07 -22.12)
LCH
lch(85.35% 34.19 220.32)
CMYK
cmyk(56%, 10%, 0%, 0%)

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.

Bothnia
noun

The Gulf of Bothnia — the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. Bothnia color refers to mid-depth Gulf of Bothnia water at midsummer: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the optical complexity of low-salinity high-latitude brackish 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.

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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.

#71e5fe
Original
#d2deff
Protanopia
#bdcefe
Deuteranopia
#00efed
Tritanopia
#cecece
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).
Failon White
1.46:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
14.34:1

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