Olive drab

#4c9b21

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

Olive drab sits in the green range, deep and strong. 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 #4c9b21, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#4c9b21

RGB76, 155, 33

HSL99, 65%, 37%

HSV99, 79%, 61%

CMYK51%, 0%, 79%, 39%

Lab57.16, -45.29, 52.24

XYZ14.98, 25.09, 5.49

Decimal5020449

Web safe#339933

Pantone362 C

Shades of olive drab

#468e1e #3f811b #397419 #336716 #2c5a13 #264d10 #1f400e #19330b #132608 #0c1905

Tints of olive drab

#58b426 #65cd2c #76d641 #88dc5a #9ae173 #ace78c #beeca5 #d0f1be #e2f7d7 #f4fcf0

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#70219b Analogous#899b21 Analogous#219b33 Triadic#214c9b Triadic#9b214c Split complementary#33219b Split complementary#9b2189

Olive drab in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 51, 0, 79, 39.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #4c9b21 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

51 0 79 39

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

51 4 77 45

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.

Olive drab in css

Copy #4c9b21 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #4c9b21; }
.text { color: #4c9b21; }
.border { border: 2px solid #4c9b21; }

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 #4c9b21 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #4c9b21 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 #4c9b21 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 #4c9b21 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

Every value on this page for #4c9b21 is computed, not guessed. 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. The Pantone value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.