Green Olive
#8d8b55
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#8d8b55
RGB
141, 139, 85
OKLCh
62.5% 0.074 106.5°
CIELAB (D50)
57.1, -5.5, 29.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.8; on black, Lc -38.9. 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
3.53:1 — large text only
Black text
5.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7b7944 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
#8d8b55
protanopia
#8b8b55 · ΔE00 0.7
deuteranopia
#8c8c55 · ΔE00 0.7
tritanopia
#8c8c49 · ΔE00 2.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCornus Green at ΔE00 1.1: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cornus GreenΔE00 1.1 · #908c53
- Snap Pea GreenΔE00 1.798 · #8a8650
- Bronze GreenΔE00 1.825 · #8d8752
- Fertile GreenΔE00 1.923 · #8b8757
- Green JalapeñoΔE00 1.999 · #8c8e51
- Amazon QueenΔE00 2.182 · #948f54
- IguanaΔE00 2.204 · #878757
- Warm WetlandsΔE00 2.218 · #8d894a
- Special OpsΔE00 2.46 · #868b53
- Crocodile SmileΔE00 2.499 · #898e58
- Dried Bay LeafΔE00 2.537 · #8c854f
- Nick’s NookΔE00 2.751 · #909062
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.