Olive Leaf
#4e4b35
A yellow that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#4e4b35
RGB
78, 75, 53
OKLCh
40.9% 0.035 101.2°
CIELAB (D50)
31.7, -1.7, 13.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.2; on black, Lc -12.1. 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 5.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.82:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.38:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.82:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4e4b35
protanopia
#4b4b35 · ΔE00 1.8
deuteranopia
#4c4c35 · ΔE00 1.8
tritanopia
#4c4c24 · ΔE00 5.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJungle King at ΔE00 1.977: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Jungle KingΔE00 1.977 · #4f4d32
- PandaΔE00 2.012 · #544f3a
- Sooty Willow BambooΔE00 2.04 · #4d4b3a
- Tinny TinΔE00 2.43 · #4b492d
- Tin BitzΔE00 2.596 · #48452b
- Thatch GreenΔE00 3.052 · #544e31
- Umber Shade WashΔE00 3.065 · #4e4d2f
- Avocado PearΔE00 3.357 · #555337
- Strong Tone WashΔE00 3.478 · #454129
- Vermilion GreenΔE00 3.505 · #474230
- Olive NightΔE00 3.533 · #565342
- Rikan BrownΔE00 3.538 · #534a32
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.