Pale Olive #B9CC81

About this color

#B9CC81 is a light, moderately saturated yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 81%, its chroma 0.101 and its hue 120°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Pale Olive. Black text reads best on it, at 12.01:1.

Colors that go with Pale Olive

Matches found by rotating Pale Olive around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Pale Olive

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Pale Olive, closest first.

• Wildflower and Hay
• Roller Sunset
• Balloon Playground
• Pumpkin and Harvest
• Paisley Tour
• Spruce Ridge
• Hemlock Path
• Evergreen Light

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Pale Olive, with their ΔE distance.

• Greenish Tan #BCCB7A ΔE 0.008
• Pale Olive Green #B1D27B ΔE 0.022
• Greenish Beige #C9D179 ΔE 0.028
• Light Moss Green #A6C875 ΔE 0.032
• Light Olive #ACBF69 ΔE 0.044
• Tan Green #A9BE70 ΔE 0.046
• Dark Khaki #BDB76B ΔE 0.053
• Sand #E2CA76 ΔE 0.056

More about Pale Olive

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Pale Olive

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 2 parts white
• 1 part orange
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #ADCB7E, a difference of ΔE 0.016 from Pale Olive. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale Olive in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Pale Olive

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 300.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F4F7ED

   oklch(97.1% 0.014 120.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E7EDD8

   oklch(93.6% 0.029 119.9)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D4DFB6

   oklch(88.5% 0.056 119.7)

4. Step 300

   300 (this color)

   #B9CC81

   oklch(81.3% 0.101 120.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #94AE1C

   oklch(70.7% 0.16 120.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #7E9600

   oklch(63.2% 0.151 120.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #6A7E00

   oklch(55.7% 0.132 120.1)

8. Step 700

   700

   #586A00

   oklch(49.2% 0.117 120.6)

9. Step 800

   800

   #485600

   oklch(42.6% 0.101 120)

10. Step 900

    900

    #3C4800

    oklch(37.7% 0.09 119.9)

11. Step 950

    950

    #222B00

    oklch(27.1% 0.065 121.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pale Olive with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.