Blue.

Blues notice that nobody else read the fine print. You did. You catch the typo everybody missed. You sit with a problem until it's actually solved, not patched, not papered over, solved. You'd rather ship a week late than ship something half-baked, and you don't really understand why other people are okay with that. They probably never will, either.

Blues are around 18% of people. You'll find them in engineering, accounting, research, law, medicine — anywhere accuracy is the whole point. Your gift is depth. When you say something is true, people can take it to the bank. They might not love how you said it. But they'll trust the facts.

• You don't ship sloppy work. Ever. It physically pains you.
• You see the angle nobody else thought of, usually before they finish the sentence.
• You plan ahead. You see the problem coming.
• You don't need supervision. You set your own bar, and the bar is high.
• Quality matters to you. People notice that, and over time they trust you for it.

• You can polish things forever. At some point you have to ship.
• You can come across as cold, even when you really aren't trying to.
• You'd rather have all the data than make the call. You'll never have all the data.
• "Fast and rough" makes your skin crawl, and people notice the look on your face.
• When conflict comes, you withdraw. Sometimes for days. People are not always sure why.

You need quiet, structure, and time to think. The thing to work on is accepting that "good enough" is sometimes actually good enough — and that other humans don't run on logic alone. Your standards are real assets. Just don't let them become a wall between you and the people who occasionally need you to just be there, imperfectly. Decisions made on incomplete information are still often the right call. The data was never going to show up anyway.

You pair well with Yellows (their energy pulls you out of your head) and Greens (their warmth softens your edges). Reds will push you to ship — painfully sometimes — but you'll make better stuff because of it.

Bill Gates · Albert Einstein · Mark Zuckerberg · Marie Curie. (Sherlock Holmes too, fictional but quintessentially Blue.)