Olive
#808010
A yellow that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#808010
RGB
128, 128, 16
OKLCh
58.1% 0.122 109.7°
CIELAB (D50)
52.2, -9.2, 53.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.7; on black, Lc -32.9. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
4.19:1 — large text only
Black text
5.01:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.01:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7b03 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#808010
protanopia
#808010 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#808010 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#808010 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDrably Olive at ΔE00 0.923: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Drably OliveΔE00 0.923 · #808101
- Trendy GreenΔE00 2.776 · #7e8424
- Fickle PickleΔE00 2.953 · #8b851b
- Palak PaneerΔE00 3.04 · #888811
- Verde TropaΔE00 3.195 · #758000
- Krypton GreenΔE00 3.381 · #83890e
- Mongolian PlateauΔE00 3.514 · #777700
- PacifikaΔE00 3.571 · #778120
- Medusa’s SnakesΔE00 3.618 · #777711
- Buffy CitrineΔE00 3.666 · #868929
- Tool GreenΔE00 3.799 · #7f7711
- Flag GreenΔE00 3.947 · #717c00
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.