Color
#159ca8
#159ca8rgb(21, 156, 168)hsl(185, 78%, 37%)oklch(0.633 0.105 204.8)Colors that go with #159ca8
Charcoal, Copper and Denim lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #159ca8 in 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #159ca8 in 4 real palettes, including Peacock and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #159ca8 in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #159ca8 in 4 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Fintech Trust, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #159ca8 in 8 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Still Water, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Red #ff0000
complementaryRed sits directly opposite #159ca8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Chocolate #d2691e
split-complementshippedChocolate is a split-complement of #159ca8: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #159ca8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #159ca8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.31:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.35:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #159ca8 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#159ca8 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #159ca8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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