Color
#85ccb5
#85ccb5rgb(133, 204, 181)hsl(161, 41%, 66%)oklch(0.792 0.079 171.8)Colors that go with #85ccb5
Charcoal, Lilac and Copper 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 #85ccb5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #85ccb5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #85ccb5: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #85ccb5 in 5 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #85ccb5 in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #85ccb5 in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #85ccb5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #85ccb5 in 4 real palettes, including Brilliant's brand system and Docker's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #85ccb5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85ccb5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.86:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.3:1 | 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 #85ccb5 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 #85ccb5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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