Color
#005d85
#005d85rgb(0, 93, 133)hsl(198, 100%, 26%)oklch(0.453 0.098 236.5)Colors that go with #005d85
Crimson, Royal Blue and Charcoal 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.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #005d85: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #005d85's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #005d85: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #005d85 in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #005d85 in 5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #005d85 in 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Darkroom, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sienna #a0522d
complementarySienna sits directly opposite #005d85 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #005d85 in 3 real palettes, including Open House and Alpine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #005d85
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #005d85 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.23:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.9:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #005d85 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
#005d85 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #005d85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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