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Organized Indranīla

#8ca6f0
Notes

Organized Indranīla (#8CA6F0) is a soft 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 (224°, 77%, 75%) 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 amber. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#8ca6f0
RGB
rgb(140, 166, 240)
HSL
hsl(224, 77%, 75%)
HWB
hwb(224 55% 6%)
OKLCH
oklch(73.5% 0.112 268.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5688 0.6479 0.9190)
HSV
hsv(224, 42%, 94%)
LAB
lab(68.85% 9.50 -39.90)
LCH
lch(68.85% 41.02 283.40)
CMYK
cmyk(42%, 31%, 0%, 6%)

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.

Indranīla
noun

The Sanskrit word for sapphire — combining Indra (the king of the gods) and nīla (deep blue). Used in classical Hindu jewelry vocabulary for the deep-blue gems of Indian royal regalia. The color refers to a faceted Kashmir indranīla: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the gem's signature internal velvet.

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.

#8ca6f0
Original
#8cadf3
Protanopia
#83a4ee
Deuteranopia
#6ab5c0
Tritanopia
#a6a6a6
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
2.38:1
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
8.83:1

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
##8CA6F0
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5688 0.6479 0.9190)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.112

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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