Color

#85b2a4

#85b2a4
hex#85b2a4
rgbrgb(133, 178, 164)
hslhsl(161, 23%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.727 0.052 173.7)
Closest name: Beau Monde (#7db39e)Relative luminance 0.3951

Colors that go with #85b2a4

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.

Real palettes that use #85b2a4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b28593

#85b28d · #85aab2

#a485b2 · #b2a485

Split-complementary

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#b285aa · #b28d85

#8d85b2 · #b28593 · #aab285

Contrast

#85b2a4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4f7d6f as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #3b5e53 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.22:1)
Aaon black
8.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #85b2a4 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 #85b2a4
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #85b2a4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/85b2a4-a2beb8-d459bb-1f2c2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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