Color

#85bcae

#85bcae
hex#85bcae
rgbrgb(133, 188, 174)
hslhsl(165, 29%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.061 177)
Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4401

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bc8593

#85bc93 · #85aebc

#ae85bc · #bcae85

Split-complementary

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#bc85ae · #bc9385

#9385bc · #bc8593 · #aebc85

Contrast

#85bcae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #478072 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #355f55 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #85bcae 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 #85bcae
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 #85bcae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/85bcae-a2beba-d459b3-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md