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Organized Mar

#7be2e4
Notes

Organized Mar (#7BE2E4) is a true 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 (181°, 66%, 69%) 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 red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#7be2e4
RGB
rgb(123, 226, 228)
HSL
hsl(181, 66%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(181 48% 11%)
OKLCH
oklch(85.2% 0.096 197.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5820 0.8766 0.8885)
HSV
hsv(181, 46%, 89%)
LAB
lab(84.07% -29.43 -10.29)
LCH
lch(84.07% 31.18 199.27)
CMYK
cmyk(46%, 1%, 0%, 11%)

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.

Mar
noun

The Catalan and Spanish word for sea — used in Mar Menor (Spanish), Mar de la Tranquilidad, and the saturated blue-green of Iberian Mediterranean coast. The color refers to the Mar Cantábrico off northern Spain at sunset: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the optical depth of cold Atlantic 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.

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.

#7be2e4
Original
#d6dae4
Protanopia
#c4cce5
Deuteranopia
#40e8e2
Tritanopia
#cccccc
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
1.52:1
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
13.84:1

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
##7BE2E4
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5820 0.8766 0.8885)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.096

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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