Color
#16552b
#16552brgb(22, 85, 43)hsl(140, 59%, 21%)oklch(0.399 0.094 150.5)Colors that go with #16552b
Orange Red, Sage Green and Taupe 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.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #16552b in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and HubSpot's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #16552b in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #16552b in 12 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Squarespace's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #16552b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #16552b in 3 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Instacart's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #16552b in 3 real palettes, including Desert Road and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #16552b in 3 real palettes, including MAC Cosmetics's brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #16552b: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #16552b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #16552b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.87:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.37:1 | 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 #16552b 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
#16552b reads as dark, luxury, bold. 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 #16552b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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