Forest green

#059d41

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for forest green, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

This is Forest green, a vivid green at 144 degrees. Deep greens like this read established and premium. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Forest green color values

Every conversion for #059d41, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#059d41

RGB5, 157, 65

HSL144, 94%, 32%

HSV144, 97%, 62%

CMYK97%, 0%, 59%, 38%

Lab56.61, -54.88, 37.92

XYZ13.07, 24.53, 9.05

Decimal367937

Web safe#009933

Pantone355 C

Shades of forest green

#05903c #048436 #047731 #036a2c #035d27 #035121 #02441c #023717 #012a12 #011e0c

Tints of forest green

#06bd4e #07dd5b #0ef76a #2ef87e #4ef991 #6efaa5 #8efbb9 #aefccd #cefde1 #eefef4

Colors that go with forest green

Complementary#9d0561 Analogous#159d05 Analogous#059d8d Triadic#41059d Triadic#9d4105 Split complementary#8d059d Split complementary#9d0515

Forest green in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 97, 0, 59, 38.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #059d41 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

97 0 59 38

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

93 4 58 44

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Forest green in css

Copy #059d41 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #059d41; }
.text { color: #059d41; }
.border { border: 2px solid #059d41; }

How forest green looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Forest green and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #059d41 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #059d41 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Forest green on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #059d41 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around forest green? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn forest green into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #059d41 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from forest green, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #059d41 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.