Color

#16a3ca

#16a3ca
hex#16a3ca
rgbrgb(22, 163, 202)
hslhsl(193, 80%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.665 0.121 223.6)
Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.3063

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ca3d16

#16ca97 · #1649ca

#ca16a3 · #a3ca16

Split-complementary

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#ca1649 · #ca9716

#9716ca · #ca3d16 · #49ca16

Contrast

#16a3ca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #117e9c as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #0d6077 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
7.13:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #16a3ca 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

#16a3ca reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #16a3ca
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 #16a3ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/16a3ca-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md