Color
#168cbb
#168cbbrgb(22, 140, 187)hsl(197, 79%, 41%)oklch(0.602 0.118 232.2)Colors that go with #168cbb
Charcoal, Copper and Amber 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 #168cbb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
complementaryshippedCopper sits directly opposite #168cbb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #168cbb in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #168cbb in 5 real palettes, including Hershey's's brand system and Glacier, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #168cbb: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #168cbb in 4 real palettes, including Deep Water and Astro's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #168cbb in 5 real palettes, including American Express's brand system and Peacock, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
shippedLight Sea Green is paired with #168cbb in 4 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Perplexity's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #168cbb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #168cbb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.82:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.5:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #168cbb 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
#168cbb reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #168cbb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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