Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#85a8a3
#85a8a3
hex
#85a8a3rgb
rgb(133, 168, 163)hsl
hsl(171, 17%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.704 0.039 185.6)Closest name: Catnip (#80aa95)Relative luminance 0.3564
Colors that go with #85a8a3
Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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 #85a8a3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Unity's brand system put Blue beside #85a8a3, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #85a8a3 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #85a8a3, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #85a8a3: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #85a8a3 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
split-complementshippedDark Salmon is a split-complement of #85a8a3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #85a8a3: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #85a8a3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85a8a3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.13:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #85a8a3 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 #85a8a3
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #85a8a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/85a8a3-a2bebd-d459a7-1f292d-e9f1ec?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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