Pickled

#b3a74b

Muted olive-gold with a pickled warmth

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About Pickled

Pickled reads like the label on a jar left in a bright pantry. It's not metallic like , and it doesn't go dusty and dry like or . Instead, it lands in this light, soft olive-yellow zone with a slightly muted, ready-for-print feel.

Compared to , it's warmer and calmer, with no showy gold edge or industrial chill. Versus , it's a touch cleaner and more green-forward, less husk-like and less sunbaked. And against , Pickled holds more depth and less honeyed dryness, so it shows up as a true "pickled" tint rather than a faded frond.

I use it for dashboards for food and agriculture, QC and batch-tracking screens, and product UIs where you need a status color that's the one you reach for when you want readable calm, not alert-yellow punch. Pair it with crisp dark text and let it sit beside cooler greens so it keeps its personality without looking like a beige cousin.

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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.

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On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

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On Gray 900 #18181b

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7.21:1AAA

On Black #000000

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