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Organized Sleek Robin

#75f8f8
Notes

Organized Sleek Robin (#75F8F8) 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 (180°, 90%, 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
#75f8f8
RGB
rgb(117, 248, 248)
HSL
hsl(180, 90%, 72%)
HWB
hwb(180 46% 3%)
OKLCH
oklch(90.6% 0.116 195.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5952 0.9609 0.9666)
HSV
hsv(180, 53%, 97%)
LAB
lab(90.64% -35.94 -11.02)
LCH
lch(90.64% 37.59 197.05)
CMYK
cmyk(53%, 0%, 0%, 3%)

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.

Sleek
modifier

Middle Dutch sleeck, smooth. As a color modifier, sleek implies a smooth-and-streamlined quality, the visual register of Mid-Century-Modern-and-Streamline-Moderne-sleek hand-streamlined-and-aerodynamic-and-polished aluminum-and-chrome-and-bakelite Mid-Century-Modern-and-Streamline-Moderne sleek-and-streamlined surfaces under Mid-Century-Modern-and-Streamline-Moderne sleek-and-polished light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to gloss and shine in usage.

Robin
noun

The American robin (Turdus migratorius) — though the color refers not to the bird's red breast but to the egg, robin's-egg blue, a pale slightly green-shifted blue produced by biliverdin pigment in the eggshell. The color is the inside surface of a fresh robin's nest at peak laying: a soft, slightly green-shifted pale blue with the matte finish of avian eggshell. Lighter than aqua, cooler than turquoise.

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.

#75f8f8
Original
#eaeef8
Protanopia
#d4ddf9
Deuteranopia
#00fff8
Tritanopia
#dcdcdc
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
1.27:1
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
16.54:1

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
##75F8F8
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5952 0.9609 0.9666)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.116

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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