Color

#16b2ca

#16b2ca
hex#16b2ca
rgbrgb(22, 178, 202)
hslhsl(188, 80%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.702 0.119 212)
Closest name: Aquarius (#2db0ce)Relative luminance 0.3628

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ca2e16

#16ca88 · #1658ca

#ca16b2 · #b2ca16

Split-complementary

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#ca1658 · #ca8816

#8816ca · #ca2e16 · #58ca16

Contrast

#16b2ca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #108193 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #0c616e as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.26:1passpasspassPasses 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 #16b2ca as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#16b2ca reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #16b2ca
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 #16b2ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/16b2ca-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md