Olive drab

#7e8d21

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

Olive drab falls in the yellow band, deep and strong. 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 drab color values

Every conversion for #7e8d21, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#7e8d21

RGB126, 141, 33

HSL68, 62%, 34%

HSV68, 77%, 55%

CMYK11%, 0%, 77%, 45%

Lab55.68, -19.7, 51.86

XYZ18.4, 23.6, 5.02

Decimal8293665

Web safe#669933

Pantone582 C

Shades of olive drab

#74811e #69761c #5f6a19 #545f16 #4a5313 #404711 #353c0e #2b300b #212409 #161906

Tints of olive drab

#95a727 #acc12d #bdd13c #c5d756 #cedd70 #d7e389 #e0eaa3 #e9f0bd #f1f6d7 #fafcf1

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#30218d Analogous#8d6621 Analogous#488d21 Triadic#217e8d Triadic#8d217e Split complementary#21488d Split complementary#66218d

Olive drab in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 11, 0, 77, 45.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #7e8d21 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

11 0 77 45

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

14 4 75 51

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Olive drab in css

Copy #7e8d21 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #7e8d21; }
.text { color: #7e8d21; }
.border { border: 2px solid #7e8d21; }

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 #7e8d21 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #7e8d21 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 #7e8d21 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 #7e8d21 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

Every value on this page for #7e8d21 is computed, not guessed. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.