Olive drab

#6a7f1c

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

Olive drab is a deep green that feels serious. 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 #6a7f1c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6a7f1c

RGB106, 127, 28

HSL73, 64%, 30%

HSV73, 78%, 50%

CMYK17%, 0%, 78%, 50%

Lab49.89, -21.58, 47.61

XYZ13.74, 18.33, 3.91

Decimal6979356

Web safe#666633

Pantone5757 C

Shades of olive drab

#61751a #596b18 #506015 #485613 #3f4c11 #37420f #2e380c #262d0a #1d2308 #151906

Tints of olive drab

#819b22 #98b628 #afd12f #b9d74b #c4dd66 #cfe382 #d9ea9e #e4f0b9 #eff6d5 #f9fcf0

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#311c7f Analogous#7f631c Analogous#387f1c Triadic#1c6a7f Triadic#7f1c6a Split complementary#1c387f Split complementary#631c7f

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 17, 0, 78, 50.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6a7f1c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

17 0 78 50

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

20 4 76 56

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 #6a7f1c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6a7f1c; }
.text { color: #6a7f1c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6a7f1c; }

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 #6a7f1c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6a7f1c 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 #6a7f1c 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 #6a7f1c 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 #6a7f1c are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.