Glacier
Open in tool →Three blues from ice to deep water on a pale surface — a monochromatic winter set with real depth.
Color
#85dfe5
#85dfe5
hex
#85dfe5rgb
rgb(133, 223, 229)hsl
hsl(184, 65%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.849 0.087 201.2)Closest name: Cold Blue (#88dddd)Relative luminance 0.6342
Colors that go with #85dfe5
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Midnight 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 #85dfe5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #85dfe5's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #85dfe5 in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Blue Mono, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #85dfe5 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #85dfe5 in 4 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #85dfe5 in 6 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85dfe5 in 16 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Macaron, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryDark Salmon sits directly opposite #85dfe5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #85dfe5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85dfe5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.53:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.68:1 | 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 #85dfe5 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
#85dfe5 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #85dfe5
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 #85dfe5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/85dfe5-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?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