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
#163036rgb(22, 48, 54)hsl(191, 42%, 15%)oklch(0.291 0.034 214.5)Sienna, Steel Blue and Teal 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.
Sienna sits directly opposite #163036 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Steel Blue is #163036's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal is #163036's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber is paired with #163036 in 14 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wikipedia's brand system, as the supporting colour.
22 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #163036, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with #163036 in 5 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
7 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #163036, as the accent.
White Smoke is the surface for #163036: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
| #163036 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.91:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.51:1 | 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 #163036 as the background.
Pool blue, watermelon and sun on white — the poolside summer set; the deep teal text keeps it from going juvenile.
Wet-leaf teal and moss with a soft peach — an overcast spring, calmer than the bright version and better for long reading.
Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
#163036 reads as cool, dark, luxury. 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 #163036 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/163036-a2b6be-df4e7a-1f252d-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