Color

#168bca

#168bca
hex#168bca
rgbrgb(22, 139, 202)
hslhsl(201, 80%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.608 0.134 240.2)
Closest name: steelblue (#4682b4)Relative luminance 0.229

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ca5516

#16caaf · #1631ca

#ca168b · #8bca16

Split-complementary

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#ca1631 · #caaf16

#af16ca · #ca5516 · #31ca16

Contrast

#168bca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.76:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #147bb3 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #0f5c85 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.53:1)
Aaon black
5.58:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #199ee6 as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #168bca 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

#168bca reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #168bca
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #168bca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/168bca-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md