Color

#166a51

#166a51
hex#166a51
rgbrgb(22, 106, 81)
hslhsl(162, 66%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.469 0.087 167.9)
Closest name: Into the Green (#0d6c49)Relative luminance 0.1107

Colors that go with #166a51

Charcoal, Crimson and Medium Violet Red 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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#6a162f

#166a27 · #16596a

#51166a · #6a5116

Split-complementary

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#6a1659 · #6a2716

#27166a · #6a162f · #596a16

Contrast

#166a51 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.53:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #14614a as the text (7.4:1)
Aaon black
3.21:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #1c8767 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #23a981 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (4.63:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #166a51 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#166a51 reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #166a51
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 #166a51 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/166a51-a2beb9-d459b9-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md