Willow Leaf
#a1a46d
Muted yellow-ash olive, calmer than cardamom
About Willow Leaf
Hold this next to Cardamom and Forester and you'll feel the difference immediately: Willow Leaf is cooler and drier, with less yellow glow. It's a light, dusty green that lands between pale sage and pressed leaf, not olive-heavy and not brassy. Compared to Garden of Earthly Delights, it reads fresher and clearer, with a lighter touch and less "powdered herb" calm.
I use Willow Leaf when the UI needs green presence without the late-afternoon certainty you get from Forester. It's great for geospatial layers in field and utility work, where toggles, map labels, and legend chips should stay readable over pale basemaps. It also fits museum and archive systems for metadata panels, and dashboards and finance apps when "success" states shouldn't look warm or urgent.
One quirk: because it's slightly cool and muted, it can wash out beside very bright whites. Pair it with a deeper type tone or warmer off-whites so it keeps its leaf edge rather than turning grayish.
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WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.
On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
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