Forest green

#288d17

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

This is Forest green, a strong green at 111 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 #288d17, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#288d17

RGB40, 141, 23

HSL111, 72%, 32%

HSV111, 84%, 55%

CMYK72%, 0%, 84%, 45%

Lab51.34, -49.93, 49.45

XYZ10.55, 19.56, 4.03

Decimal2657559

Web safe#339900

Pantone363 C

Shades of forest green

#258215 #217613 #1e6b11 #1b5f10 #18540e #14480c #113d0a #0e3108 #0b2606 #071a04

Tints of forest green

#30a91c #38c520 #44dc2a #5de146 #75e563 #8eea7f #a7ef9b #c0f3b7 #d9f8d3 #f2fcf0

Colors that go with forest green

Complementary#7c178d Analogous#638d17 Analogous#178d41 Triadic#17288d Triadic#8d1728 Split complementary#41178d Split complementary#8d1763

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 72, 0, 84, 45.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #288d17 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

72 0 84 45

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

70 4 81 51

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

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Forest green in css

Copy #288d17 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #288d17; }
.text { color: #288d17; }
.border { border: 2px solid #288d17; }

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 #288d17 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #288d17 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Forest green on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #288d17 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn forest green into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #288d17 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

Here is how the numbers for #288d17 are worked out. 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.