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Organized Morningglory

#afe3f1
Notes

Organized Morningglory (#AFE3F1) is a soft cyan with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (193°, 70%, 82%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. 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
#afe3f1
RGB
rgb(175, 227, 241)
HSL
hsl(193, 70%, 82%)
HWB
hwb(193 69% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(88.4% 0.057 216.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7280 0.8844 0.9376)
HSV
hsv(193, 27%, 95%)
LAB
lab(87.19% -13.46 -12.23)
LCH
lch(87.19% 18.19 222.26)
CMYK
cmyk(27%, 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.

Morningglory
noun

The family Convolvulaceae — particularly Ipomoea purpurea, the climbing annual whose blue-purple morning-blooming trumpet flowers close by midday. The color refers to a fresh Ipomoea flower in early morning: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the satin finish of single-day trumpet bloom.

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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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.

#afe3f1
Original
#d9dff2
Protanopia
#ced7f1
Deuteranopia
#9ae9e7
Tritanopia
#d9d9d9
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
1.39:1
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
15.08:1

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
##AFE3F1
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7280 0.8844 0.9376)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.057

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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