Olive Tree
#aba77c
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
#aba77c
RGB
171, 167, 124
OKLCh
72.1% 0.059 103.3°
CIELAB (D50)
68.0, -3.7, 22.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.3; on black, Lc -53.7. 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 5.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.46:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c784f 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
#aba77c
protanopia
#a7a77c · ΔE00 1.6
deuteranopia
#a8a87c · ΔE00 1.6
tritanopia
#a9a968 · ΔE00 5.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThimbleberry Leaf at ΔE00 1.073: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Thimbleberry LeafΔE00 1.073 · #afa97d
- Water ReedΔE00 1.293 · #b0ab80
- Brisk OliveΔE00 1.295 · #aaa97f
- Fond of FrondsΔE00 1.885 · #aba379
- New BambooΔE00 1.977 · #adac84
- Stuffed OliveΔE00 2.036 · #adac7c
- Green Grey MistΔE00 2.043 · #afa984
- Bamboo ForestΔE00 2.081 · #b1a979
- Even GrowthΔE00 2.198 · #b2aa7a
- CardamomΔE00 2.452 · #aaaa77
- Lively IvyΔE00 2.465 · #b3ae87
- Geek ChicΔE00 2.487 · #b0a677
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.