Color
#85385e
#85385ergb(133, 56, 94)hsl(330, 41%, 37%)oklch(0.457 0.115 351.8)Colors that go with #85385e
Teal, Champagne and Taupe 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #85385e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #85385e, as the text colour against it.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85385e in 12 real palettes, including Blush and Darkroom, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #85385e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #85385e: 3 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #85385e in 3 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #85385e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #85385e: 3 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #85385e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85385e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.71:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.72:1 | 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 #85385e 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
#85385e reads as warm. 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 #85385e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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