Forest Floor
Open in tool →Moss and bark with a mushroom-cap amber — grounded and quiet, made for long-form nature content.
Color
#85ab73
#85ab73
hex
#85ab73rgb
rgb(133, 171, 115)hsl
hsl(101, 25%, 56%)oklch
oklch(0.699 0.089 135.9)Closest name: Buckingham Gardens (#89a068)Relative luminance 0.3535
Colors that go with #85ab73
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 #85ab73: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #85ab73, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #85ab73 in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #85ab73, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #85ab73: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #85ab73: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #85ab73 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #85ab73: 5 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #85ab73
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85ab73 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.6:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.07:1 | 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 #85ab73 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 #85ab73
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 #85ab73 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/85ab73-a7bea2-6b4edf-1f2d21-eff1e9?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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