Forest green

#297e39

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 soft. 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 #297e39, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#297e39

RGB41, 126, 57

HSL131, 51%, 33%

HSV131, 67%, 49%

CMYK67%, 0%, 55%, 51%

Lab46.56, -40.82, 30.03

XYZ9.11, 15.69, 6.42

Decimal2719289

Web safe#336633

Pantone356 C

Shades of forest green

#267434 #226930 #1f5f2b #1c5526 #184b22 #15401d #123618 #0e2c14 #0b210f #08170a

Tints of forest green

#319744 #39af4f #46c35d #5ecb73 #77d388 #8fdb9e #a8e3b3 #c0ebc8 #d9f3de #f2fbf3

Colors that go with forest green

Complementary#7e296e Analogous#447e29 Analogous#297e63 Triadic#39297e Triadic#7e3929 Split complementary#63297e Split complementary#7e2944

Forest green in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 67, 0, 55, 51.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #297e39 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

67 0 55 51

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

66 4 55 57

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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Forest green in css

Copy #297e39 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #297e39; }
.text { color: #297e39; }
.border { border: 2px solid #297e39; }

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 #297e39 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #297e39 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 #297e39 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 #297e39 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 #297e39 are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.