Color
#85bddb
#85bddbrgb(133, 189, 219)hsl(201, 54%, 69%)oklch(0.77 0.072 232.3)Colors that go with #85bddb
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Amber 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #85bddb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #85bddb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #85bddb in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #85bddb in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange is paired with #85bddb in 4 real palettes, including PayPal's brand system and Learning App, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #85bddb in 4 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Open House, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #85bddb in 8 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle is paired with #85bddb in 4 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #85bddb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85bddb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.04:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.3:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #85bddb 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
#85bddb reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #85bddb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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