Color
#85f9dc
#85f9dcrgb(133, 249, 220)hsl(165, 91%, 75%)oklch(0.906 0.114 175.3)Colors that go with #85f9dc
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Taupe 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 #85f9dc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #85f9dc: 7 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Deep Water, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85f9dc in 11 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Mint Chip, as the text colour against it.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #85f9dc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #85f9dc: 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Terminal, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #85f9dc in 3 real palettes, including Formula 1's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
triadicshippedLilac completes a triad with #85f9dc — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #85f9dc, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #85f9dc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85f9dc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.27:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.58:1 | 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 #85f9dc 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
#85f9dc 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 #85f9dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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