Edit: the pic I posted has a more greenish tone, I think, but it's a photo of a book that I have physically and Coyote Brown lines up with the physical version better
Well, first: this is not just one color. There are 4 or 5 different color blocks mixed in the picture. Which makes it hard to pinpoint a name for a single shade. Second: if you know anything about color theory, it is quite obvious that it's any combination of red and green (or yellow and magenta). In color theory this combinations both can make anything from bright orange to yellow to grapefruit red. Or, if you greatly desaturate it or charge it towards black in hue, to brown. Everyone here is calling it some form of brown as well. And it might actually be browny (the color) by the overall range of values in the picture.
As far as I can read just by eye, its "mustard" or "olive", but funnily it also seem close to the one someone annotated: "really? this color again? i have nothing against colors personally, but this one just stands out from the rest as unusually unattractive. i almost feel sad for it, but it made the decision to be that color so it has to find a way to deal with it."
But, someone, feel free to dig into the hex codes to give a more definite answer.
This is the color they made cigarette packages in Canada, and I believe Australia some years ago, supposedly because its a gross color. Didn't stop me, neither did Barb Tarbox
I you'll permit me a tangent, the linguistics of the senses are something that fascinate me. Color names have been studied a fair bit, and an oft-repeated (not sure how accurate) theory states that languages acquire color names in a particular order, starting with words for dark and light, then red, then green and yellow, and so on. As a student of Latin and to a much lesser extent Greek I was interested to find out that there's no exact word for "blue" in classical Latin or Greek, hence Homer's famous "wine-dark sea".
As a blind person I'm more interested in odor vocabulary. The dominant theory until recently is that language is incapable of describing odors as qualia distinct from the sources of those odors. That is, "green" describes a particular instance of subjective experience independent of grass or bile or any other green thing, but terms for odors all stem from analogies or just the words for their sources. Earth smells "earthy", flowers smell "floral" and so on.
But some research on minority languages spoken by hunter-gatherers living in Thailand suggest that at least some languages do have "odor colors" as I call them. I desperately want a non-technical breakdown of these studies, or indeed access to the papers at all, but the details are behind pay walls.
Some of my conlangs are meant to have such odor colors based on the valence-arousal model of emotions since their speakers communicate mood through pheromones rather than body language. Their color words in contrast work like human odor words, only being able to describe color by analogy with something so colored.
Dark Mustard
This one seems to be the closest, unironically. Now my curiosity is satisfied and my soul at peace.
Mustard IN the dark
Mustard after dark. 🦵
I call it Captain Kirk's Shirt.
Command Yellow
Baby-shit green.
Didn't scroll far enough for the truth.
Ochre.
Yup, maybe a dash muddier but the scenic tints basically look like that.
I would say no, ochre would have more of a red or orange-y tint.
Yellow ochre gives a similar result, but is missing the blue tones that make slightly green
Shitreuse
Or shartreuse
Dark yellow olive tone (#7B690B)
Too yellow to be olive green, too green to be proper mustard yellow.
Olive yellow or green mustard, your choice
Olive drab?
More like olive stylish
In French, caca d'oie - "goose poo".
Looks like theres a site you can use to get color names. It says its called Browny Green
https://colors.artyclick.com/color-names-dictionary/color-names/browny-green-color
Lol cmon did mitch hedberg name that?
1970 called and it wants its color back.
Mouse's breath
Lol, is that an actual colour? I'm googling and the results are "mouse's back", although that one's too gray IMO...
Farrow and Ball are renowned for having bullshit pijo names for their paints, I just mixed elephants breath and mouse's back
What is an "actual" color?
The United States Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) flirts with it.
Chartreuse
Mustard yellow?
Caca d'oie
In Catalan we'd call this “color de merda d'oca”. Goose shit colour.
We're quite a scatological people (see our Christmas traditions, for instance).
Chip Shop Curry
olive green, or dijon mustard
Shit yellow
Baby poo brown
I saw this color on a Jeep once. 🤮
Before or after the "🤮"?
Prob both ...
shart
Garbage
I could see calling that leaf green or olive
Mustard, you fuck
That's not a color. That's at least three different colours.
Olive
Baby puke.
Baby's first spinach poo
Taupe
I’m surprised how far down I had to scroll to find this as an answer!
Pale brown with a green tint.
Splunge.
French mustard.
It's the lighter shade of depression brown the UK covered all tobacco products with.
Dehydrated bile green?
Last squirt diarrhea.
Dark yellow
Pukey jade
Diarrhea brown
The "darker yellow" in Windows 3.11
olive green?
Slightly darkened yellowy brown.
That earth tone green you see on hippy stuff from the 70s and on African stuff.
Dark Yellow, brass, tkinter Gold4
Regurgitated olive.
FDE? Maybe Coyote Brown depending on saturation/contrast?
Coyote Brown seems closer
Edit: the pic I posted has a more greenish tone, I think, but it's a photo of a book that I have physically and Coyote Brown lines up with the physical version better
Musturd
Strange poo
It's called "khlute". (From now on--I made it up.)
Always called it “diarrhea green” growing up(it was popular to see in the 70s).
Tri Repetae.
Ah, a man of culture! But this colour is too greenish, I think
It's brown-yellow so brellow
Lil Pickle
Vomit green
Edit No wait! YELLOW
Foulingras
Horrible.
Very slightly yellow brown, I guess kinda olive.
Pea green
I aint doing that again. Hurts like hell.
It’s avocado-mustard
Orange, fite me…
Are you colourblind or a sub that likes getting belittled
Well, first: this is not just one color. There are 4 or 5 different color blocks mixed in the picture. Which makes it hard to pinpoint a name for a single shade. Second: if you know anything about color theory, it is quite obvious that it's any combination of red and green (or yellow and magenta). In color theory this combinations both can make anything from bright orange to yellow to grapefruit red. Or, if you greatly desaturate it or charge it towards black in hue, to brown. Everyone here is calling it some form of brown as well. And it might actually be browny (the color) by the overall range of values in the picture.
As we all know, brown is just orange with context. Thus, the only technically accurate name it could be given is orange.
Jungle juice
Olive yellow I'd say, or booger yellow.
Dark yellow
Mom would call it “baby poop” green.
I’d call it pea soup green.
Or puke green.
Depends on what the color was on and howl inoffensive I care to be.
Could also be a (darker) mustard yellow depending on the lighting
Puce?
What kind of nerds do you claim to be in this thread?! Despite being late, I see no mention of the xkcd color survey: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
As far as I can read just by eye, its "mustard" or "olive", but funnily it also seem close to the one someone annotated: "really? this color again? i have nothing against colors personally, but this one just stands out from the rest as unusually unattractive. i almost feel sad for it, but it made the decision to be that color so it has to find a way to deal with it."
But, someone, feel free to dig into the hex codes to give a more definite answer.
Made me laugh.
Caca d’oie (goose poop) It’s a true color name in French
Olive?
Ha is this the Pantone colour of the year?
No, it's the colour of one book I own and it just struck me how I can't name or describe it.
Also now you made me go check... apparently this is Pantone's colour of the year 2025:
and this one is for 2026 (how can you select the colour of the year in advance tho?)
I never get that either, but I think it’s a way to control next year’s fashion.
Army green?
This is the color they made cigarette packages in Canada, and I believe Australia some years ago, supposedly because its a gross color. Didn't stop me, neither did Barb Tarbox
Bile
Blellow
upsetting
Pea soup
olive or gold, im not sure.
Light blue!
A hue of orange
probs a light brown
Booger
Brown
I'd call it "olive".
I you'll permit me a tangent, the linguistics of the senses are something that fascinate me. Color names have been studied a fair bit, and an oft-repeated (not sure how accurate) theory states that languages acquire color names in a particular order, starting with words for dark and light, then red, then green and yellow, and so on. As a student of Latin and to a much lesser extent Greek I was interested to find out that there's no exact word for "blue" in classical Latin or Greek, hence Homer's famous "wine-dark sea".
As a blind person I'm more interested in odor vocabulary. The dominant theory until recently is that language is incapable of describing odors as qualia distinct from the sources of those odors. That is, "green" describes a particular instance of subjective experience independent of grass or bile or any other green thing, but terms for odors all stem from analogies or just the words for their sources. Earth smells "earthy", flowers smell "floral" and so on.
But some research on minority languages spoken by hunter-gatherers living in Thailand suggest that at least some languages do have "odor colors" as I call them. I desperately want a non-technical breakdown of these studies, or indeed access to the papers at all, but the details are behind pay walls.
Some of my conlangs are meant to have such odor colors based on the valence-arousal model of emotions since their speakers communicate mood through pheromones rather than body language. Their color words in contrast work like human odor words, only being able to describe color by analogy with something so colored.
Green. A really browny green.
Drank Too Much Wine green
Grocker
Golive
Gushing Granny
Blue of course
Tan