Color

#166a60

#166a60
hex#166a60
rgbrgb(22, 106, 96)
hslhsl(173, 66%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.474 0.078 183)
Closest name: Aqua Obscura (#05696b)Relative luminance 0.1132

Colors that go with #166a60

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Copper 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.

Real palettes that use #166a60

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6a161f

#166a36 · #164a6a

#60166a · #6a6016

Split-complementary

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#6a164a · #6a3616

#36166a · #6a161f · #4a6a16

Contrast

#166a60 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.43:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #146158 as the text (7.29:1)
Aaon black
3.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #1b8377 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #23a99a as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #166a60 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

#166a60 reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #166a60
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 #166a60 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/166a60-a2bebe-d459a3-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md