Color
#5d85ea
#5d85eargb(93, 133, 234)hsl(223, 77%, 64%)oklch(0.636 0.158 265.8)Colors that go with #5d85ea
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Orange Red 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #5d85ea: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
triadicshippedMedium Sea Green completes a triad with #5d85ea — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Orange Red #ff4500
triadicshippedOrange Red completes a triad with #5d85ea — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #5d85ea in 10 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped12 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #5d85ea, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #5d85ea: 9 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Carrefour's brand system, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5d85ea in 7 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and NASCAR's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #5d85ea in 4 real palettes, including Playground and Ahrefs's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #5d85ea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5d85ea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.5:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.01:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5d85ea as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#5d85ea reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #5d85ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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