Color

#85c1fa

#85c1fa
hex#85c1fa
rgbrgb(133, 193, 250)
hslhsl(209, 92%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.792 0.103 248)
Closest name: Electric Eel (#88bbee)Relative luminance 0.5003

Colors that go with #85c1fa

Charcoal, Goldenrod 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#fabd85

#85faf8 · #8587fa

#fa85c1 · #c1fa85

Split-complementary

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#fa8587 · #faf885

#f885fa · #fabd85 · #87fa85

Contrast

#85c1fa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #0976dc as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #0759a6 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.12:1)
Aaon black
11.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #85c1fa as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#85c1fa reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #85c1fa
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 #85c1fa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/85c1fa-9cacc4-df4e4e-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md