Olive

#736621

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

Olive falls in the yellow band, deep and strong. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Olive color values

Every conversion for #736621, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#736621

RGB115, 102, 33

HSL50, 55%, 29%

HSV50, 71%, 45%

CMYK0%, 11%, 71%, 55%

Lab43.15, -3.45, 39.25

XYZ12.1, 13.26, 3.36

Decimal7562785

Web safe#666633

Pantone3995 C

Shades of olive

#6a5e1e #61561c #584e19 #4f4617 #453e14 #3c3511 #332d0f #2a250c #211d09 #181507

Tints of olive

#8e7e29 #a89530 #c3ad38 #cdb951 #d5c46b #dccf86 #e4d9a1 #ece4bc #f3efd6 #fbf9f1

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#212e73 Analogous#733d21 Analogous#577321 Triadic#217366 Triadic#662173 Split complementary#215773 Split complementary#3d2173

Olive 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, 11, 71, 55.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #736621 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 11 71 55

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 14 69 61

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 #736621 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #736621; }
.text { color: #736621; }
.border { border: 2px solid #736621; }

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 #736621 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #736621 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 #736621 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 #736621 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 #736621 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.