Forest green

#448429

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 #448429, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#448429

RGB68, 132, 41

HSL102, 53%, 34%

HSV102, 69%, 52%

CMYK48%, 0%, 69%, 48%

Lab49.36, -37.82, 41.22

XYZ11.04, 17.89, 4.97

Decimal4490281

Web safe#339933

Pantone363 C

Shades of forest green

#3e7926 #396e22 #33631f #2e591c #284e18 #224315 #1d3811 #172d0e #12220b #0c1707

Tints of forest green

#519c31 #5db538 #6dc647 #80cd5f #93d578 #a7dd90 #bae4a8 #cdecc1 #e1f3d9 #f4fbf1

Colors that go with forest green

Complementary#692984 Analogous#718429 Analogous#29843c Triadic#294484 Triadic#842944 Split complementary#3c2984 Split complementary#842971

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 48, 0, 69, 48.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #448429 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

48 0 69 48

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

48 4 67 54

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 #448429 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #448429; }
.text { color: #448429; }
.border { border: 2px solid #448429; }

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 #448429 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #448429 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 #448429 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 #448429 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 #448429 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.