Color

#161e8d

#161e8d
hex#161e8d
rgbrgb(22, 30, 141)
hslhsl(236, 73%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.328 0.177 268.8)
Closest name: Deepsea Kraken (#082599)Relative luminance 0.0302

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8d8516

#165a8d · #4a168d

#8d161e · #1e8d16

Split-complementary

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#8d4a16 · #5a8d16

#8d165a · #8d8516 · #168d4a

Contrast

#161e8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
13.09:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6069e6 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #888fec as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #999999 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #161e8d 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

#161e8d reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #161e8d
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 #161e8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/161e8d-9e9cc4-df8f4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md