Color

#161cb6

#161cb6
hex#161cb6
rgbrgb(22, 28, 182)
hslhsl(238, 78%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.376 0.226 267.4)
Closest name: Dark Galaxy (#0018a8)Relative luminance 0.0438

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b6b016

#166bb6 · #6116b6

#b6161c · #1cb616

Split-complementary

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#b66116 · #6bb616

#b6166b · #b6b016 · #16b661

Contrast

#161cb6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.2:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6065eb as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #898cf0 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #161cb6 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

#161cb6 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #161cb6
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 #161cb6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/161cb6-9f9cc4-df944e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md