Color
#16602b
#16602brgb(22, 96, 43)hsl(137, 63%, 23%)oklch(0.432 0.11 148.5)Colors that go with #16602b
Charcoal, Crimson 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #16602b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #16602b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #16602b in 12 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
split-complementshippedBlue Violet is a split-complement of #16602b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #16602b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
split-complementshippedMedium Violet Red is a split-complement of #16602b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #16602b in 3 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Clerk's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #16602b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #16602b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #16602b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.66:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.74:1 | 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 #16602b 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
#16602b reads as vivid, 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 #16602b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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