Olive

#6d6d05

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

This is Olive, a vivid yellow at 60 degrees. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Olive color values

Every conversion for #6d6d05, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6d6d05

RGB109, 109, 5

HSL60, 91%, 22%

HSV60, 95%, 43%

CMYK0%, 0%, 95%, 57%

Lab44.52, -11.4, 49.36

XYZ11.8, 14.2, 2.26

Decimal7171333

Web safe#666600

Pantone385 C

Shades of olive

#656505 #5d5d04 #555504 #4d4d04 #454503 #3d3d03 #353502 #2d2d02 #252502 #1d1d01

Tints of olive

#919107 #b5b508 #d9d90a #f4f415 #f8f85d #f9f981 #fbfba6 #fdfdca #fefeee

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#05056d Analogous#6d3905 Analogous#396d05 Triadic#056d6d Triadic#6d056d Split complementary#05396d Split complementary#39056d

Olive in print

A color this vivid sometimes sits just outside cmyk gamut, so expect a small dip in punch on paper. The cmyk build is 0, 0, 95, 57.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6d6d05 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 0 95 57

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 4 91 63

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 in css

Copy #6d6d05 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6d6d05; }
.text { color: #6d6d05; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6d6d05; }

How olive looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Olive and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #6d6d05 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6d6d05 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #6d6d05 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around olive? 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 into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #6d6d05 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, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #6d6d05 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 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.