Olive drab

#66a02c

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 90 degrees. Deep greens like this read established and premium. Warm terracotta and clay across the wheel balance it and cream keeps it fresh.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #66a02c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#66a02c

RGB102, 160, 44

HSL90, 57%, 40%

HSV90, 73%, 63%

CMYK36%, 0%, 72%, 37%

Lab60.02, -37.89, 51.57

XYZ18.5, 28.15, 6.84

Decimal6725676

Web safe#669933

Pantone369 C

Shades of olive drab

#5d9228 #558525 #4c7721 #436a1d #3b5c19 #324e16 #294112 #21330e #18260a #0f1807

Tints of olive drab

#74b732 #83c93c #91d053 #a0d669 #aedc80 #bce297 #cbe9ad #d9efc4 #e8f5da #f6fbf1

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#662ca0 Analogous#a0a02c Analogous#2ca02c Triadic#2c66a0 Triadic#a02c66 Split complementary#2c2ca0 Split complementary#a02ca0

Olive drab in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 36, 0, 72, 37.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #66a02c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

36 0 72 37

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

37 4 70 43

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 #66a02c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #66a02c; }
.text { color: #66a02c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #66a02c; }

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 #66a02c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #66a02c 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 #66a02c 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 #66a02c 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

The figures for #66a02c come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.