Color

#1b166a

#1b166a
hex#1b166a
rgbrgb(27, 22, 106)
hslhsl(244, 66%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.278 0.138 275.2)
Closest name: midnightblue (#191970)Relative luminance 0.0185

Colors that go with #1b166a

Charcoal, Steel Blue and Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#646a16

#163a6a · #45166a

#6a1b16 · #166a1b

Split-complementary

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#6a4516 · #3a6a16

#6a163a · #646a16 · #166a45

Contrast

#1b166a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
15.33:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.37:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f67e0 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #938de8 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8c8c8c (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #1b166a 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

#1b166a reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #1b166a
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #1b166a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1b166a-a39cc4-dfa24e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md