#196a8a as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	6.05:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #165d79 as the text (7.3:1)
Aaon black	3.47:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #1e7ea4 as the text (4.58:1) AAA: use #27a2d3 as the text (7.2:1) AA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #196a8a as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

1f6f8b 7fa2b6 e76f51 f5f8fa 15222e

Alpine

Open in tool →

Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.

Cool Clean LightOutdoors

Fonts for this mood

#196a8a reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #196a8a

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 #196a8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/196a8a-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md