Lido
Open in tool →Pool blue, watermelon and sun on white — the poolside summer set; the deep teal text keeps it from going juvenile.
Color
#162c32
#162c32
hex
#162c32rgb
rgb(22, 44, 50)hsl
hsl(193, 39%, 14%)oklch
oklch(0.278 0.03 217.3)Closest name: Black Box (#0f282f)Relative luminance 0.022
Colors that go with #162c32
Charcoal, Sienna and Steel Blue 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 #162c32: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #162c32 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #162c32'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 #162c32'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 #162c32 in 18 real palettes, including Beach Hut and McDonald's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped24 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #162c32, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #162c32 in 7 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #162c32, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #162c32
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #162c32 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.58:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.44:1 | 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 #162c32 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
Beach Hut
Open in tool →Sea blue with sun-bleached yellow and a coral — striped-canvas summer, softened so it works on a screen.
Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Fonts for this mood
#162c32 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #162c32
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 #162c32 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/162c32-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-e9f1ef?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