Pickled
#b3a74b
Muted olive-gold with a pickled warmth
About Pickled
Pickled reads like the label on a jar left in a bright pantry. It's not metallic like Brass, and it doesn't go dusty and dry like Desert Locust or Palm. Instead, it lands in this light, soft olive-yellow zone with a slightly muted, ready-for-print feel.
Compared to Brass, it's warmer and calmer, with no showy gold edge or industrial chill. Versus Desert Locust, it's a touch cleaner and more green-forward, less husk-like and less sunbaked. And against Palm, 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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On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
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