Color
#85a97e
#85a97ergb(133, 169, 126)hsl(110, 20%, 58%)oklch(0.696 0.073 140.5)Colors that go with #85a97e
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 body-text near-black for #85a97e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Unity's brand system put Blue beside #85a97e, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #85a97e in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #85a97e, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #85a97e: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #85a97e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #85a97e in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #85a97e: 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #85a97e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85a97e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.63:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.97:1 | 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 #85a97e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #85a97e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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