Olive drab

#737f38

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 70 degrees. Deep greens like this read established and premium. Warm terracotta and clay across the wheel balance it and cream keeps it fresh.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #737f38, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#737f38

RGB115, 127, 56

HSL70, 39%, 36%

HSV70, 56%, 50%

CMYK9%, 0%, 56%, 50%

Lab50.81, -15.57, 36.56

XYZ15.37, 19.11, 6.62

Decimal7569208

Web safe#666633

Pantone5763 C

Shades of olive drab

#697433 #606a2f #565f2a #4d5525 #434a21 #3a401c #303517 #262a13 #1d200e #131509

Tints of olive drab

#869441 #9aaa4b #a8b75c #b3c172 #bfca87 #cad49d #d6ddb2 #e1e7c8 #edf0dd #f8faf3

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#44387f Analogous#7f6838 Analogous#507f38 Triadic#38737f Triadic#7f3873 Split complementary#384f7f Split complementary#67387f

Olive drab in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 9, 0, 56, 50.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #737f38 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

9 0 56 50

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

12 4 56 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 #737f38 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #737f38; }
.text { color: #737f38; }
.border { border: 2px solid #737f38; }

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 #737f38 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #737f38 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 #737f38 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 #737f38 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 #737f38 are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.