Color

#16a5bb

#16a5bb
hex#16a5bb
rgbrgb(22, 165, 187)
hslhsl(188, 79%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.112 211.8)
Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.3067

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bb2c16

#16bb7f · #1653bb

#bb16a5 · #a5bb16

Split-complementary

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#bb1653 · #bb7f16

#7f16bb · #bb2c16 · #53bb16

Contrast

#16a5bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #118192 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #0d616e as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.01:1)
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 #16a5bb 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

#16a5bb reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #16a5bb
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 #16a5bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/16a5bb-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md