Color

#85b8bc

#85b8bc
hex#85b8bc
rgbrgb(133, 184, 188)
hslhsl(184, 29%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.748 0.054 202.2)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.429

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bc8985

#85bca4 · #859dbc

#bc85b8 · #b8bc85

Split-complementary

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#bc859d · #bca485

#a485bc · #bc8985 · #9dbc85

Contrast

#85b8bc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.19:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #477c80 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #355d5f as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.58:1passpasspassPasses 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 #85b8bc 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 #85b8bc
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 #85b8bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/85b8bc-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md