Olive drab

#43a20e

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

This is Olive drab, a vivid green at 99 degrees. Deep greens like this read established and premium. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #43a20e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#43a20e

RGB67, 162, 14

HSL99, 84%, 35%

HSV99, 91%, 64%

CMYK59%, 0%, 91%, 36%

Lab59.04, -51.35, 58.56

XYZ15.31, 27.07, 4.83

Decimal4432398

Web safe#339900

Pantone369 C

Shades of olive drab

#3d950d #38870c #327a0b #2d6c09 #275f08 #225207 #1c4406 #173705 #112a04 #0c1c02

Tints of olive drab

#4fbf11 #5bdc13 #6bec23 #7eee40 #92f15d #a6f47a #b9f697 #cdf9b4 #e0fbd1 #f4feef

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#6d0ea2 Analogous#8da20e Analogous#0ea223 Triadic#0e43a2 Triadic#a20e43 Split complementary#230ea2 Split complementary#a20e8d

Olive drab 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 59, 0, 91, 36.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #43a20e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

59 0 91 36

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

58 4 88 42

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.

Olive drab in css

Copy #43a20e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #43a20e; }
.text { color: #43a20e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #43a20e; }

How olive drab looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Olive drab and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #43a20e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #43a20e against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive drab on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #43a20e sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn olive drab into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #43a20e 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 olive drab, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #43a20e are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.