Color
#162e7e
#162e7ergb(22, 46, 126)hsl(226, 70%, 29%)oklch(0.34 0.139 266.1)Colors that go with #162e7e
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #162e7e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #162e7e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #162e7e in 4 real palettes, including Pepsi's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #162e7e in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Nintendo's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #162e7e in 11 real palettes, including Hasbro's brand system and Bank of America's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #162e7e in 8 real palettes, including Discord's brand system and Confluent's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
shippedSky Blue is paired with #162e7e in 4 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Harbour, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #162e7e in 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Bloomberg's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #162e7e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #162e7e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.17:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.73:1 | 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 #162e7e 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
#162e7e reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #162e7e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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