Color
#85fadf
#85fadfrgb(133, 250, 223)hsl(166, 92%, 75%)oklch(0.909 0.114 176.7)Colors that go with #85fadf
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 #85fadf: 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 #85fadf: 7 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Deep Water, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85fadf 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 #85fadf 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 #85fadf: 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Terminal, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #85fadf in 3 real palettes, including Formula 1's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
analogousshippedEmerald Green is #85fadf's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #85fadf, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #85fadf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85fadf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.25:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.74:1 | 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 #85fadf 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
#85fadf 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 #85fadf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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