Olive drab

#697c22

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

Olive drab sits in the green range, deep and strong. 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 #697c22, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#697c22

RGB105, 124, 34

HSL73, 57%, 31%

HSV73, 73%, 49%

CMYK15%, 0%, 73%, 51%

Lab48.93, -20.13, 44.39

XYZ13.32, 17.53, 4.2

Decimal6913058

Web safe#666633

Pantone5757 C

Shades of olive drab

#61721f #58681d #505e1a #475417 #3f4a14 #364012 #2e360f #252c0c #1d2209 #141807

Tints of olive drab

#7f9629 #95b030 #abc939 #b6d054 #c1d76e #ccde88 #d7e6a2 #e3edbd #eef4d7 #f9fbf1

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#35227c Analogous#7c6222 Analogous#3c7c22 Triadic#22697c Triadic#7c2269 Split complementary#223c7c Split complementary#62227c

Olive drab in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 15, 0, 73, 51.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #697c22 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 0 73 51

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 4 71 57

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 #697c22 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #697c22; }
.text { color: #697c22; }
.border { border: 2px solid #697c22; }

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 #697c22 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #697c22 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 #697c22 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 #697c22 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 #697c22 are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.