Olive drab

#78a619

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

This is Olive drab, a strong green at 80 degrees. Deep greens like this read established and premium. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #78a619, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#78a619

RGB120, 166, 25

HSL80, 74%, 37%

HSV80, 85%, 65%

CMYK28%, 0%, 85%, 35%

Lab62.79, -34.69, 60.45

XYZ21.56, 31.34, 5.83

Decimal7906841

Web safe#669900

Pantone369 C

Shades of olive drab

#6e9817 #648a15 #5a7c13 #506e11 #46600f #3c520c #31440a #273608 #1d2906 #131b04

Tints of olive drab

#8bc01d #9eda21 #aae138 #b5e552 #c0e96d #cced87 #d7f1a1 #e2f5bb #edf9d5 #f8fdef

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#4719a6 Analogous#a68e19 Analogous#31a619 Triadic#1978a6 Triadic#a61978 Split complementary#1931a6 Split complementary#8e19a6

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 28, 0, 85, 35.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #78a619 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

28 0 85 35

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

30 4 82 41

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #78a619 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #78a619; }
.text { color: #78a619; }
.border { border: 2px solid #78a619; }

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 #78a619 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #78a619 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 #78a619 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 #78a619 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

The figures for #78a619 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. 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.