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Organized Glacier

#92bbf4
Notes

Organized Glacier (#92BBF4) 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 (215°, 82%, 76%) 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
#92bbf4
RGB
rgb(146, 187, 244)
HSL
hsl(215, 82%, 76%)
HWB
hwb(215 57% 4%)
OKLCH
oklch(78.4% 0.093 256.7)
HSV
hsv(215, 40%, 96%)
LAB
lab(74.94% 0.44 -32.59)
LCH
lch(74.94% 32.60 270.77)
CMYK
cmyk(40%, 23%, 0%, 4%)

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.

Glacier
noun

A compressed mass of ice that has accumulated over decades or centuries — Alpine, Andean, Patagonian, polar. The color refers to the exposed face of a clean glacier where compression has driven out the air: a soft, very pale blue-green with the optical clarity of dense ice. Lighter than aqua, cooler than seafoam, with the high-altitude weight of a landform now retreating across most of the planet.

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.

#92bbf4
Original
#a6bef7
Protanopia
#9bb4f3
Deuteranopia
#70c7ce
Tritanopia
#b6b6b6
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
1.97:1
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
10.64:1

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