Color

#16486a

#16486a
hex#16486a
rgbrgb(22, 72, 106)
hslhsl(204, 66%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.386 0.078 242.7)
Closest name: Black Turmeric (#2c4364)Relative luminance 0.0585

Colors that go with #16486a

Royal Blue, Teal 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

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#6a3716

#166a61 · #161e6a

#6a1648 · #486a16

Split-complementary

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#6a161e · #6a6116

#61166a · #6a3716 · #1e6a16

Contrast

#16486a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.68:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #257cb6 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #459ed9 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #16486a 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

#16486a reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #16486a
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 #16486a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/16486a-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md