Olive drab

#6aaa45

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

This is Olive drab, a soft green at 98 degrees. A mid green this grounded suits sustainability and outdoor brands. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #6aaa45, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6aaa45

RGB106, 170, 69

HSL98, 42%, 47%

HSV98, 59%, 67%

CMYK38%, 0%, 59%, 33%

Lab63.54, -38.72, 44.77

XYZ21.39, 32.24, 10.73

Decimal6990405

Web safe#669933

Pantone369 C

Shades of olive drab

#619b3f #588c39 #4e7e33 #456f2d #3c6027 #335121 #29421b #203315 #17250f #0e1609

Tints of olive drab

#76b850 #84bf62 #92c774 #a1ce86 #afd598 #bdddaa #cbe4bc #d9ebce #e7f3e0 #f5faf2

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#8545aa Analogous#9daa45 Analogous#45aa52 Triadic#456aaa Triadic#aa456a Split complementary#5345aa Split complementary#aa459c

Olive drab in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 38, 0, 59, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6aaa45 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

38 0 59 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

39 4 58 39

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 #6aaa45 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6aaa45; }
.text { color: #6aaa45; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6aaa45; }

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 #6aaa45 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6aaa45 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 #6aaa45 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 #6aaa45 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 #6aaa45 are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.