Olive

#7e7939

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

Olive falls in the yellow band, deep and soft. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Olive color values

Every conversion for #7e7939, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#7e7939

RGB126, 121, 57

HSL56, 38%, 36%

HSV56, 55%, 49%

CMYK0%, 4%, 55%, 51%

Lab49.98, -7.31, 35.32

XYZ16.18, 18.41, 6.57

Decimal8288569

Web safe#666633

Pantone5825 C

Shades of olive

#746f34 #696530 #5f5b2b #545126 #4a4721 #3f3d1d #353218 #2a2813 #201e0e #15140a

Tints of olive

#938d43 #a9a24c #b6b05e #c0ba73 #c9c588 #d3cf9e #dddab3 #e6e4c8 #f0eedd #f9f9f3

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#393e7e Analogous#7e5739 Analogous#607e39 Triadic#397e79 Triadic#79397e Split complementary#39607e Split complementary#57397e

Olive in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 4, 55, 51.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #7e7939 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 4 55 51

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 8 55 57

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 #7e7939 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #7e7939; }
.text { color: #7e7939; }
.border { border: 2px solid #7e7939; }

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 #7e7939 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #7e7939 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 #7e7939 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 #7e7939 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 #7e7939 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.