Olive

#797f3e

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

Olive is a deep yellow, serious at this saturation. 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 #797f3e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#797f3e

RGB121, 127, 62

HSL66, 34%, 37%

HSV66, 51%, 50%

CMYK5%, 0%, 51%, 50%

Lab51.37, -12.36, 34.26

XYZ16.34, 19.59, 7.48

Decimal7962430

Web safe#666633

Pantone5763 C

Shades of olive

#6f7439 #656a34 #5b5f2e #505429 #464a24 #3c3f1f #32341a #282a14 #1e1f0f #14150a

Tints of olive

#8c9348 #a0a852 #acb464 #b7bd79 #c2c78d #cdd1a2 #d8dbb6 #e3e5ca #eeefdf #f9f9f3

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#443e7f Analogous#7f653e Analogous#597f3e Triadic#3e797f Triadic#7f3e79 Split complementary#3e597f Split complementary#653e7f

Olive in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 5, 0, 51, 50.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #797f3e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

5 0 51 50

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

9 4 51 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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Olive in css

Copy #797f3e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #797f3e; }
.text { color: #797f3e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #797f3e; }

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 #797f3e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #797f3e 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 #797f3e 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 #797f3e 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 #797f3e 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.