Color
#85c8d5
#85c8d5rgb(133, 200, 213)hsl(190, 49%, 68%)oklch(0.793 0.07 211.1)Colors that go with #85c8d5
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Denim 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 #85c8d5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #85c8d5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #85c8d5: 4 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #85c8d5, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #85c8d5 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #85c8d5 in 5 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped9 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #85c8d5, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85c8d5 in 27 real palettes, including Raycast's brand system and Still Water, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #85c8d5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85c8d5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.22:1 | 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 #85c8d5 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
#85c8d5 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 #85c8d5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/85c8d5-a2b6be-df4e7c-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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