Color

#164e6a

#164e6a
hex#164e6a
rgbrgb(22, 78, 106)
hslhsl(200, 66%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.402 0.073 235)
Closest name: Raging Thunderstorm (#004f63)Relative luminance 0.0666

Colors that go with #164e6a

Crimson, Royal 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6a3216

#166a5c · #16246a

#6a164e · #4e6a16

Split-complementary

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#6a1624 · #6a5c16

#5c166a · #6a3216 · #246a16

Contrast

#164e6a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.01:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #237ca9 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #34a0d5 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #164e6a 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

#164e6a reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #164e6a
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 #164e6a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/164e6a-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md