Greek Olive
#a08650
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
#a08650
RGB
160, 134, 80
OKLCh
63.2% 0.079 84.5°
CIELAB (D50)
57.5, 5.0, 32.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.4; on black, Lc -39.3. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 9.3 and 9.4 and 13.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.49:1 — large text only
Black text
6.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d733e 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
#a08650
protanopia
#898950 · ΔE00 9.3
deuteranopia
#8e8e4f · ΔE00 9.4
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 13.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWheatmeal at ΔE00 0.968: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- WheatmealΔE00 0.968 · #9e8451
- Bristle GrassΔE00 1.594 · #a28450
- Aztec BrickΔE00 1.614 · #9e8352
- Wishing TrollΔE00 1.806 · #9a834b
- Graceful GazelleΔE00 1.934 · #a78a50
- WastelandΔE00 2.079 · #9c8855
- Mustard GoldΔE00 2.122 · #a6894b
- Wood GreenΔE00 2.347 · #a78c59
- Spacious PlainΔE00 2.368 · #9a8557
- Golden HarmonyΔE00 2.451 · #9f8046
- Fall HarvestΔE00 2.459 · #a78a59
- Banner GoldΔE00 2.48 · #a28557
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.