Color

#85a5bc

#85a5bc
hex#85a5bc
rgbrgb(133, 165, 188)
hslhsl(205, 29%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.706 0.049 239.6)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3553

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bc9c85

#85bcb7 · #858abc

#bc85a5 · #a5bc85

Split-complementary

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#bc858a · #bcb785

#b785bc · #bc9c85 · #8abc85

Contrast

#85a5bc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #537b97 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #3e5b70 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.11:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #85a5bc as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #85a5bc
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #85a5bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/85a5bc-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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