Glacier
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Color
#85dfef
#85dfef
hex
#85dfefrgb
rgb(133, 223, 239)hsl
hsl(189, 77%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.853 0.089 210.1)Closest name: Cold Blue (#88dddd)Relative luminance 0.6399
Colors that go with #85dfef
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 #85dfef: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #85dfef's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #85dfef, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #85dfef: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #85dfef, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85dfef in 18 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Macaron, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #85dfef: 4 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Sorbet, as the accent.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryDark Salmon sits directly opposite #85dfef 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 #85dfef
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85dfef as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.52:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.8:1 | 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 #85dfef 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
#85dfef reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #85dfef
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 #85dfef and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/85dfef-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-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