Olive drab

#86a80f

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

Olive drab sits in the green range, deep and vivid. 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 #86a80f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#86a80f

RGB134, 168, 15

HSL73, 84%, 36%

HSV73, 91%, 66%

CMYK20%, 0%, 91%, 34%

Lab64.25, -30.22, 64.06

XYZ23.92, 33.11, 5.58

Decimal8824847

Web safe#999900

Pantone376 C

Shades of olive drab

#7b9a0e #708c0d #657e0b #59700a #4e6209 #435408 #384606 #2d3805 #222a04 #161c03

Tints of olive drab

#9dc412 #b3e114 #c0ec28 #c9ee44 #d1f161 #d9f37d #e1f699 #eaf8b6 #f2fbd2 #fafeef

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#310fa8 Analogous#a87e0f Analogous#39a80f Triadic#0f86a8 Triadic#a80f86 Split complementary#0f39a8 Split complementary#7e0fa8

Olive drab in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 20, 0, 91, 34.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #86a80f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

20 0 91 34

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

22 4 88 40

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 #86a80f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #86a80f; }
.text { color: #86a80f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #86a80f; }

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 #86a80f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #86a80f 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 #86a80f 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 #86a80f 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

Here is how the numbers for #86a80f are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.