Color

#85b3bc

#85b3bc
hex#85b3bc
rgbrgb(133, 179, 188)
hslhsl(190, 29%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.051 211)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.4086

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bc8e85

#85bcaa · #8598bc

#bc85b3 · #b3bc85

Split-complementary

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#bc8598 · #bcaa85

#aa85bc · #bc8e85 · #98bc85

Contrast

#85b3bc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.29:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4a7d87 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #385e66 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
9.17:1passpasspassPasses 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 #85b3bc as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #85b3bc
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 #85b3bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/85b3bc-a2b6be-df4e7c-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md