Color

#16bbad

#16bbad
hex#16bbad
rgbrgb(22, 187, 173)
hslhsl(175, 79%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.714 0.123 185.3)
Closest name: Emerald Bliss (#4cbdac)Relative luminance 0.3873

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bb1624

#16bb5b · #1676bb

#ad16bb · #bbad16

Split-complementary

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#bb1676 · #bb5b16

#5b16bb · #bb1624 · #76bb16

Contrast

#16bbad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.4:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #10847b as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #0c645d as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.75:1passpasspassPasses 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 #16bbad as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

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

tool url/palettes/new/16bbad-a2bdbe-d4599f-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md