Color
#166f6a
#166f6argb(22, 111, 106)hsl(177, 67%, 26%)oklch(0.491 0.079 189.1)Colors that go with #166f6a
Charcoal, Crimson and Blue 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 text near-black for #166f6a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
complementaryshippedCrimson sits directly opposite #166f6a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #166f6a, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #166f6a: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #166f6a: 4 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #166f6a: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #166f6a: 11 real palettes, including The New York Times's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #166f6a: 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #166f6a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #166f6a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.97:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.52:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #166f6a 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
#166f6a 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 #166f6a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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