Color

#162d7e

#162d7e
hex#162d7e
rgbrgb(22, 45, 126)
hslhsl(227, 70%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.338 0.14 266.4)
Closest name: Below the Surface (#0a2f7c)Relative luminance 0.0355

Colors that go with #162d7e

Charcoal, Steel Blue and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#7e6716

#16607e · #34167e

#7e162d · #2d7e16

Split-complementary

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#7e3416 · #607e16

#7e1660 · #7e6716 · #167e34

Contrast

#162d7e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.28:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4d6de0 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #7991e7 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9e9e9e (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #162d7e 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

#162d7e reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #162d7e
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #162d7e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/162d7e-9ca0c4-df7a4e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md