Color

#85bcc7

#85bcc7
hex#85bcc7
rgbrgb(133, 188, 199)
hslhsl(190, 37%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.761 0.059 211.4)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.4508

Colors that go with #85bcc7

Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Copper 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 #85bcc7

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#c79085

#85c7b1 · #859bc7

#c785bc · #bcc785

Split-complementary

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#c7859b · #c7b185

#b185c7 · #c79085 · #9bc785

Contrast

#85bcc7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #407f8c as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #305f69 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.22:1)
Aaon black
10.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #85bcc7 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#85bcc7 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #85bcc7
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 #85bcc7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/85bcc7-a2b6be-df4e7c-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md