Dark olive green

#405b21

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

Dark olive 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.

Dark olive green color values

Every conversion for #405b21, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#405b21

RGB64, 91, 33

HSL88, 47%, 24%

HSV88, 64%, 36%

CMYK30%, 0%, 64%, 64%

Lab35.36, -20.89, 29.59

XYZ6.13, 8.68, 2.79

Decimal4217633

Web safe#336633

Pantone574 C

Shades of dark olive green

#3b541f #364d1c #32461a #2d4017 #283915 #233212 #1e2b10 #19240d #151d0b #101608

Tints of dark olive green

#53762b #669135 #79ac3e #8bbf50 #9dc96b #afd386 #c1dda1 #d3e7bc #e5f0d7 #f6faf2

Colors that go with dark olive green

Complementary#3c215b Analogous#5b5921 Analogous#235b21 Triadic#21405b Triadic#5b2140 Split complementary#21235b Split complementary#59215b

Dark olive green in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 30, 0, 64, 64.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #405b21 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

30 0 64 64

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

32 4 63 70

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.

Dark olive green in css

Copy #405b21 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #405b21; }
.text { color: #405b21; }
.border { border: 2px solid #405b21; }

How dark olive green looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Dark olive green and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #405b21 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #405b21 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark olive green on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #405b21 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around dark olive green? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn dark olive green into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #405b21 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 dark olive green, free and print ready.

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How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #405b21 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.