#16142e as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	17.89:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.17:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #716abe as the text (4.51:1) AAA: use #9691cf as the text (7.25:1) AA: or shift the background to #808080 (4.53:1) AAA: or shift the background to #a3a3a3 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #16142e as the background.

Brands using this color

Coheresecondary · #14142a · Δ0.899

Palettes built around it

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Blueprint

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Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.

Technical Cool Modern Dark

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Slate Workspace

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Slate on slate with a single blue — the productivity-app look where the interface disappears behind the work.

Minimal Cool Clean ModernSaas

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Clinic

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Teal reads clinical without the coldness of pure blue; the coral accent adds warmth for reassurance moments.

Clean Cool LightHealth

Fonts for this mood

#16142e reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #16142e

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

try this prompt

›analyze #16142e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/16142e-a49cc4-dfa54e-261f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md