Campus
Open in tool →Institutional blue with a highlighter-amber accent — trustworthy for parents, lively enough for students.
Color
#162b45
#162b45
hex
#162b45rgb
rgb(22, 43, 69)hsl
hsl(213, 52%, 18%)oklch
oklch(0.286 0.055 254.6)Closest name: Eternal Darkness (#1c2841)Relative luminance 0.0233
Colors that go with #162b45
Charcoal, Sea Green and Sienna 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 #162b45: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #162b45 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #162b45 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
analogousshippedSlate Blue is #162b45's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #162b45's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #162b45 in 7 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wikipedia's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #162b45 in 17 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Sketch's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #162b45 in 6 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Graphite Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #162b45
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #162b45 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.33:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.47:1 | 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 #162b45 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Open House
Open in tool →Steel blue for trust, warm gold for the sold moment — an approachable brokerage that still feels established.
Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Fonts for this mood
#162b45 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #162b45
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #162b45 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/162b45-9ca9c4-df584e-1f202d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md