Olive drab

#5b9a24

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

This is Olive drab, a strong green at 92 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 #5b9a24, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5b9a24

RGB91, 154, 36

HSL92, 62%, 37%

HSV92, 77%, 60%

CMYK41%, 0%, 77%, 40%

Lab57.52, -39.76, 51.81

XYZ16.19, 25.46, 5.73

Decimal6003236

Web safe#669933

Pantone370 C

Shades of olive drab

#538d21 #4c801e #44731b #3c6618 #355915 #2d4c12 #26400f #1e330c #162609 #0f1906

Tints of olive drab

#69b22a #78cb2f #87d445 #97d95e #a7df76 #b7e58f #c6eaa7 #d6f0c0 #e6f6d8 #f6fcf1

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#63249a Analogous#969a24 Analogous#249a28 Triadic#245b9a Triadic#9a245b Split complementary#28249a Split complementary#9a2496

Olive drab in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 41, 0, 77, 40.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5b9a24 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

41 0 77 40

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

42 4 75 46

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.

Olive drab in css

Copy #5b9a24 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5b9a24; }
.text { color: #5b9a24; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5b9a24; }

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 #5b9a24 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5b9a24 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive drab on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #5b9a24 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn olive drab into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #5b9a24 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 #5b9a24 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.