Dark Olive
#373e02
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#373e02
RGB
55, 62, 2
OKLCh
34.5% 0.078 116.8°
CIELAB (D50)
24.7, -9.2, 31.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 98% 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 96.0; on black, Lc 0.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 14.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.34:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.85:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.34:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#373e02
protanopia
#3d3d02 · ΔE00 2.8
deuteranopia
#3c3c03 · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#3b3b31 · ΔE00 14.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGreen Not Found at ΔE00 2.569: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Green Not FoundΔE00 2.569 · #404404
- Garden ShadowΔE00 3.546 · #334400
- Alligator GladiatorΔE00 3.705 · #444411
- Wasabi NoriΔE00 4.314 · #333300
- No Emissions GreenΔE00 4.819 · #404c02
- Hinterlands GreenΔE00 4.957 · #304112
- CamouflageΔE00 5.102 · #3c3910
- GodzillaΔE00 5.441 · #3c4d03
- Turtle SkinΔE00 6.147 · #363e1d
- Blind ForestΔE00 6.257 · #223300
- OliveniteΔE00 6.351 · #333311
- Nori Seaweed GreenΔE00 6.843 · #464826
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.