Color
#85ca81
#85ca81rgb(133, 202, 129)hsl(117, 41%, 65%)oklch(0.775 0.123 143)Colors that go with #85ca81
Charcoal, Plum and Dark Olive Green 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 body-text near-black for #85ca81: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #85ca81 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #85ca81 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #85ca81 in 4 real palettes, including Remix's brand system and Prime Video's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #85ca81 in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Canopy, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #85ca81 in 4 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Fresh Juice, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #85ca81 in 6 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Indigo SaaS, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85ca81 in 22 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Rain Garden, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #85ca81
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85ca81 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.95:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.76:1 | 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 #85ca81 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #85ca81 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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