Olive drab

#56a340

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

This is Olive drab, a soft green at 107 degrees. A mid green this grounded suits sustainability and outdoor brands. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #56a340, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#56a340

RGB86, 163, 64

HSL107, 44%, 45%

HSV107, 61%, 64%

CMYK47%, 0%, 61%, 36%

Lab60.38, -42.82, 43.23

XYZ17.86, 28.54, 9.42

Decimal5677888

Web safe#669933

Pantone362 C

Shades of olive drab

#4f953a #478735 #40792f #386b2a #315c24 #294e1f #224019 #1a3214 #13240e #0c1609

Tints of olive drab

#60b647 #70be5a #81c66d #91cd80 #a2d593 #b2dca6 #c3e4b9 #d3ebcc #e3f2df #f4faf2

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#8d40a3 Analogous#88a340 Analogous#40a35b Triadic#4056a3 Triadic#a34056 Split complementary#5b40a3 Split complementary#a34087

Olive drab in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 47, 0, 61, 36.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #56a340 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

47 0 61 36

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

47 4 60 42

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 #56a340 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #56a340; }
.text { color: #56a340; }
.border { border: 2px solid #56a340; }

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 #56a340 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #56a340 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 #56a340 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 #56a340 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 #56a340 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.