Color
#16052e
#16052ergb(22, 5, 46)hsl(265, 80%, 10%)oklch(0.178 0.078 297.2)Colors that go with #16052e
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #16052e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #16052e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #16052e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna #a0522d
triadicshippedSienna completes a triad with #16052e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #16052e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #16052e in 17 real palettes, including Southwest Airlines's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped19 real palettes, including Penpot's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #16052e, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #16052e in 10 real palettes, including Gemstone and Twitch's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #16052e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #16052e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.17:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.1:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #16052e 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
#16052e reads as cool, vivid, dark. 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 #16052e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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