Color

#16b0bb

#16b0bb
hex#16b0bb
rgbrgb(22, 176, 187)
hslhsl(184, 79%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.691 0.115 203)
Closest name: lightseagreen (#20b2aa)Relative luminance 0.3481

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bb2116

#16bb74 · #165ebb

#bb16b0 · #b0bb16

Split-complementary

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#bb165e · #bb7416

#7416bb · #bb2116 · #5ebb16

Contrast

#16b0bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #108189 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #0c5f64 as the text (7.4:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.96:1passpasspassPasses 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 #16b0bb 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

#16b0bb reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #16b0bb
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 #16b0bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/16b0bb-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md