Color

#16a2bb

#16a2bb
hex#16a2bb
rgbrgb(22, 162, 187)
hslhsl(189, 79%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.656 0.112 214.3)
Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.296

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bb2f16

#16bb81 · #1650bb

#bb16a2 · #a2bb16

Split-complementary

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#bb1650 · #bb8116

#8116bb · #bb2f16 · #50bb16

Contrast

#16a2bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.03:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #117f92 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #0d5f6e as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.67:1)
Aaon black
6.92:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #16a6c0 as the text (7.25:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #16a2bb 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

#16a2bb reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #16a2bb
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 #16a2bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/16a2bb-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md