Color
#85e5ca
#85e5cargb(133, 229, 202)hsl(163, 65%, 71%)oklch(0.855 0.1 173.7)Colors that go with #85e5ca
Charcoal, Lilac and Deep Sky 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 #85e5ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #85e5ca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #85e5ca in 5 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Deep Water, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #85e5ca in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Stone, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #85e5ca in 6 real palettes, including Still Water and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85e5ca in 14 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #85e5ca: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #85e5ca in 3 real palettes, including Canopy and Neon's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #85e5ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85e5ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.49:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.06:1 | 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 #85e5ca 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
#85e5ca reads as vivid, light, clean. 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 #85e5ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/85e5ca-a2beb9-d459b7-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?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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