Olive

#879021

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. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Olive color values

Every conversion for #879021, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#879021

RGB135, 144, 33

HSL65, 63%, 35%

HSV65, 77%, 56%

CMYK6%, 0%, 77%, 44%

Lab57.28, -17.27, 53.6

XYZ20.24, 25.21, 5.24

Decimal8884257

Web safe#999933

Pantone582 C

Shades of olive

#7c841e #71781c #666c19 #5a6016 #4f5413 #444911 #393d0e #2e310b #232508 #171906

Tints of olive

#9faa27 #b7c32d #c6d33d #ced857 #d5de70 #dde48a #e4eaa4 #ecf0bd #f3f6d7 #fbfcf0

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#2a2190 Analogous#906221 Analogous#4f9021 Triadic#218790 Triadic#902187 Split complementary#214f90 Split complementary#622190

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 6, 0, 77, 44.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #879021 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

6 0 77 44

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 4 75 50

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 #879021 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #879021; }
.text { color: #879021; }
.border { border: 2px solid #879021; }

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 #879021 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #879021 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 #879021 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 #879021 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 #879021 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.