Color

#85bcab

#85bcab
hex#85bcab
rgbrgb(133, 188, 171)
hslhsl(161, 29%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.752 0.063 173.4)
Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4389

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bc8597

#85bc8f · #85b2bc

#ab85bc · #bcab85

Split-complementary

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#bc85b2 · #bc8f85

#8f85bc · #bc8597 · #b2bc85

Contrast

#85bcab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #47806e as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #355f52 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.78:1passpasspassPasses 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 #85bcab 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 #85bcab
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 #85bcab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

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

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Machine-readable: color.md