Dark olive green

#696021

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

Dark olive green falls in the yellow band, deep and soft. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Dark olive green color values

Every conversion for #696021, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#696021

RGB105, 96, 33

HSL53, 52%, 27%

HSV53, 69%, 41%

CMYK0%, 9%, 69%, 59%

Lab40.38, -4.75, 36.05

XYZ10.28, 11.48, 3.11

Decimal6905889

Web safe#666633

Pantone581 C

Shades of dark olive green

#61591e #59511c #504a19 #484217 #403b14 #383312 #302c0f #28240c #1f1d0a #171507

Tints of dark olive green

#847929 #9f9132 #baaa3a #c8b950 #d0c46b #d9ce86 #e1d9a1 #eae4bc #f2efd6 #fbfaf1

Colors that go with dark olive green

Complementary#212a69 Analogous#693c21 Analogous#4e6921 Triadic#216960 Triadic#602169 Split complementary#214e69 Split complementary#3c2169

Dark olive green in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 9, 69, 59.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #696021 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 9 69 59

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 12 67 65

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.

Dark olive green in css

Copy #696021 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #696021; }
.text { color: #696021; }
.border { border: 2px solid #696021; }

How dark olive green looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Dark olive green and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #696021 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #696021 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark olive green on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #696021 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around dark olive green? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn dark olive green into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #696021 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 dark olive green, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #696021 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.