Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Color
#85c7ef
#85c7ef
hex
#85c7efrgb
rgb(133, 199, 239)hsl
hsl(203, 77%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.8 0.088 236)Closest name: Below Zero (#87cded)Relative luminance 0.5207
Colors that go with #85c7ef
Charcoal, Sandy Brown and Blue 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 #85c7ef: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
complementaryshippedSandy Brown sits directly opposite #85c7ef on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #85c7ef, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #85c7ef: 4 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Telehealth and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #85c7ef, as the text colour against it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #85c7ef in 5 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #85c7ef, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85c7ef in 22 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Raycast's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #85c7ef
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85c7ef as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.41:1 | 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 #85c7ef as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#85c7ef reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #85c7ef
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #85c7ef and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/85c7ef-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md