Color
#85e2e5
#85e2e5rgb(133, 226, 229)hsl(182, 65%, 71%)oklch(0.856 0.089 198.3)Colors that go with #85e2e5
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cornflower 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 #85e2e5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #85e2e5's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #85e2e5: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #85e2e5 in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including First Snow and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #85e2e5, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #85e2e5: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #85e2e5, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85e2e5 in 18 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Macaron, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #85e2e5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85e2e5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.5:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.01:1 | 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 #85e2e5 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
#85e2e5 reads as cool, vivid, light. 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 #85e2e5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/85e2e5-a2babe-d45990-1f272d-e9f1ee?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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