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Organized Void Lagoon

#93e3f2
Notes

Organized Void Lagoon (#93E3F2) 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 (189°, 79%, 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 red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#93e3f2
RGB
rgb(147, 227, 242)
HSL
hsl(189, 79%, 76%)
HWB
hwb(189 58% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(86.9% 0.081 210.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6471 0.8820 0.9401)
HSV
hsv(189, 39%, 95%)
LAB
lab(85.78% -20.73 -15.02)
LCH
lch(85.78% 25.60 215.92)
CMYK
cmyk(39%, 6%, 0%, 5%)

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.

Void
modifier

Latin vocivus, empty-or-vacant. As a color modifier, void implies an empty-and-vacant-and-bottomless quality, the visual register of Yves-Klein-and-Rothko-void hand-empty-and-vacant-and-bottomless Yves-Klein-and-Rothko-and-Malevich-Black-Square voided-and-empty-and-vacant-and-bottomless surfaces under Yves-Klein-and-Rothko-and-Malevich-Black-Square monochrome-canvas-and-color-field-and-suprematist gallery-and-void-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to blank and hollow in usage.

Lagoon
noun

A shallow body of saltwater partially or fully enclosed by a barrier — coral atoll lagoons in the Pacific, Venice's Laguna Veneta, the Florida Keys' backcountry. The color refers to the average reflectance of a calm tropical lagoon at midday: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical clarity of shallow water over white sand. Brighter than reef, cooler than aquamarine, with the postcard weight of a Pacific atoll seen from above.

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.

#93e3f2
Original
#d6ddf3
Protanopia
#c6d1f2
Deuteranopia
#6ceae7
Tritanopia
#d3d3d3
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
1.45:1
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
14.51:1

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
##93E3F2
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6471 0.8820 0.9401)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.081

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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