Color
#85517d
#85517drgb(133, 81, 125)hsl(309, 24%, 42%)oklch(0.51 0.093 332.6)Colors that go with #85517d
Sea Green, Royal Blue and Sage Green 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #85517d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #85517d in 4 real palettes, including Stripe's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #85517d: 4 real palettes, including Graphite and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85517d in 11 real palettes, including Blush and GitHub's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #85517d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #85517d, as the surface under it.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #85517d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #85517d in 3 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Console Light, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #85517d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85517d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.05:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.47:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #85517d 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
#85517d reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #85517d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/85517d-c19fb8-85cb62-2d1f25-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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