Olive

#657900

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

This is Olive, a vivid green at 70 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 color values

Every conversion for #657900, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#657900

RGB101, 121, 0

HSL70, 100%, 24%

HSV70, 100%, 47%

CMYK17%, 0%, 100%, 53%

Lab47.55, -21.67, 52.49

XYZ12.2, 16.44, 2.53

Decimal6650112

Web safe#666600

Pantone385 C

Shades of olive

#5d7000 #566700 #4e5e00 #475500 #3f4c00 #384300 #303a00 #293100 #212800 #1a1f00

Tints of olive

#849e00 #a3c300 #c2e800 #d7ff0e #e4ff59 #eaff7e #f0ffa3 #f6ffc8 #fcffed

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#140079 Analogous#795100 Analogous#287900 Triadic#006579 Triadic#790065 Split complementary#002879 Split complementary#500079

Olive in print

A color this vivid sometimes sits just outside cmyk gamut, so expect a small dip in punch on paper. The cmyk build is 17, 0, 100, 53.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #657900 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

17 0 100 53

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

20 4 96 59

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 in css

Copy #657900 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #657900; }
.text { color: #657900; }
.border { border: 2px solid #657900; }

How olive looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Olive and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #657900 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #657900 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #657900 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around olive? 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 into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #657900 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, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #657900 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.