Forest green

#168c17

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

Forest green sits in the green range, deep and strong. 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 #168c17, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#168c17

RGB22, 140, 23

HSL121, 73%, 32%

HSV121, 84%, 55%

CMYK84%, 0%, 84%, 45%

Lab50.67, -52.42, 48.71

XYZ9.86, 18.99, 3.96

Decimal1477655

Web safe#009900

Pantone363 C

Shades of forest green

#148115 #127513 #116a11 #0f5f10 #0d530e #0b480c #0a3d0a #083108 #062606 #041a04

Tints of forest green

#1aa91c #1fc520 #28dd29 #44e246 #61e662 #7deb7e #9aef9b #b7f4b7 #d3f8d3 #f0fdf0

Colors that go with forest green

Complementary#8c168b Analogous#508c16 Analogous#168c52 Triadic#17168c Triadic#8c1716 Split complementary#52168c Split complementary#8c1650

Forest green in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 84, 0, 84, 45.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #168c17 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

84 0 84 45

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

81 4 81 51

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 #168c17 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #168c17; }
.text { color: #168c17; }
.border { border: 2px solid #168c17; }

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 #168c17 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #168c17 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 #168c17 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 #168c17 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

Every value on this page for #168c17 is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.