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Organized Warbler

#e8ef8b
Notes

Organized Warbler (#E8EF8B) is a soft yellow with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (64°, 76%, 74%) 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 blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#e8ef8b
RGB
rgb(232, 239, 139)
HSL
hsl(64, 76%, 74%)
HWB
hwb(64 55% 6%)
OKLCH
oklch(92.5% 0.124 112.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.9148 0.9364 0.5938)
HSV
hsv(64, 42%, 94%)
LAB
lab(92.02% -16.66 47.46)
LCH
lch(92.02% 50.30 109.34)
CMYK
cmyk(3%, 0%, 42%, 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.

Warbler
noun

The family Parulidae — North American wood warblers — particularly Setophaga petechia (yellow warbler) whose males in breeding plumage are bright yellow with red-streaked breasts. The color refers to a male yellow warbler in breeding plumage: a saturated, slightly cool bright yellow with the matte finish of carotenoid-pigmented feathers.

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.

#e8ef8b
Original
#fde783
Protanopia
#fde990
Deuteranopia
#f4e4d7
Tritanopia
#e6e6e6
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
1.22:1
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
17.15:1

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
##E8EF8B
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.9148 0.9364 0.5938)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.124

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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