Olive drab

#73ab4d

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 96 degrees. A mid green this grounded suits sustainability and outdoor brands. Warm terracotta and clay across the wheel balance it and cream keeps it fresh.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #73ab4d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#73ab4d

RGB115, 171, 77

HSL96, 38%, 49%

HSV96, 55%, 67%

CMYK33%, 0%, 55%, 33%

Lab64.41, -35.13, 42.11

XYZ22.97, 33.31, 12.24

Decimal7580493

Web safe#669966

Pantone369 C

Shades of olive drab

#699c46 #5f8d40 #557e39 #4b6f32 #41602b #375125 #2c421e #223317 #182410 #0e150a

Tints of olive drab

#80b55b #8dbd6c #9ac47d #a7cc8e #b4d49f #c1dbaf #cee3c0 #dbead1 #e8f2e2 #f5f9f3

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#854dab Analogous#a2ab4d Analogous#4dab56 Triadic#4d73ab Triadic#ab4d73 Split complementary#564dab Split complementary#ab4da2

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 33, 0, 55, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #73ab4d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

33 0 55 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

34 4 55 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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Olive drab in css

Copy #73ab4d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #73ab4d; }
.text { color: #73ab4d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #73ab4d; }

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 #73ab4d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #73ab4d against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive drab on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #73ab4d 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn olive drab into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #73ab4d 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 #73ab4d are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.