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Organized Sakura

#9b5e7a
Notes

Organized Sakura (#9B5E7A) is a true magenta with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (332°, 24%, 49%) places it in the muted 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 teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#9b5e7a
RGB
rgb(155, 94, 122)
HSL
hsl(332, 24%, 49%)
HWB
hwb(332 37% 39%)
OKLCH
oklch(55.8% 0.087 351.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5744 0.3797 0.4742)
HSV
hsv(332, 39%, 61%)
LAB
lab(47.47% 28.86 -5.13)
LCH
lch(47.47% 29.31 349.92)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 39%, 21%, 39%)

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.

Sakura
noun

The flowering cherry — Prunus serrulata — and the unifying spring color of Japanese aesthetic life. The color refers to a somei-yoshino cherry in full bloom: a soft, slightly cool pale red-pink with the matte finish of five-petaled bloom. Lighter than rose, cooler than coral, with the ephemeral weight of a flower whose two-week bloom defines an entire season's poetry.

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.

#9b5e7a
Original
#646a7b
Protanopia
#737578
Deuteranopia
#a35c68
Tritanopia
#6d6d6d
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).
AAon White
4.91:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
4.28:1

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
##9B5E7A
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5744 0.3797 0.4742)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.087

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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