Olive drab

#79a10a

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

Olive drab is a deep green that feels serious. 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 #79a10a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#79a10a

RGB121, 161, 10

HSL76, 88%, 34%

HSV76, 94%, 63%

CMYK25%, 0%, 94%, 37%

Lab61.29, -32.38, 62.09

XYZ20.68, 29.58, 4.91

Decimal7971082

Web safe#669900

Pantone377 C

Shades of olive drab

#6f9409 #658708 #5b7908 #516c07 #475f06 #3d5205 #334404 #2a3703 #202a03 #161d02

Tints of olive drab

#90bf0c #a6dd0e #b8f11b #c1f339 #cbf557 #d4f675 #def893 #e7fab2 #f0fcd0 #fafeee

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#320aa1 Analogous#a17e0a Analogous#2ea10a Triadic#0a79a1 Triadic#a10a79 Split complementary#0a2da1 Split complementary#7d0aa1

Olive drab in print

A color this vivid sometimes sits just outside cmyk gamut, so expect a small dip in punch on paper. The cmyk build is 25, 0, 94, 37.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #79a10a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 0 94 37

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 4 90 43

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

Olive drab in css

Copy #79a10a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #79a10a; }
.text { color: #79a10a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #79a10a; }

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 #79a10a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #79a10a 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 #79a10a 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 #79a10a 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 #79a10a come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.