Color
#164a7e
#164a7ergb(22, 74, 126)hsl(210, 70%, 29%)oklch(0.404 0.103 252)Colors that go with #164a7e
Crimson, Blue and Cadet 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.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #164a7e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Alaska Airlines's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #164a7e, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #164a7e: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #164a7e: 16 real palettes, including Unilever's brand system and Hasbro's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #164a7e in 4 real palettes, including Sapphire & Gold and Disney's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped19 real palettes, including First Snow and Microsoft's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #164a7e, as that palette's text colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #164a7e in 5 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Tumblr's brand system, as the supporting colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #164a7e: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #164a7e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #164a7e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.07:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.31:1 | 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 #164a7e 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
#164a7e 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 #164a7e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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