Olive

#897131

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

This is Olive, a soft orange at 44 degrees. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Olive color values

Every conversion for #897131, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#897131

RGB137, 113, 49

HSL44, 47%, 36%

HSV44, 64%, 54%

CMYK0%, 18%, 64%, 46%

Lab48.7, 1.6, 38.2

XYZ16.78, 17.35, 5.37

Decimal9007409

Web safe#996633

Pantone4495 C

Shades of olive

#7e682d #725e29 #675525 #5b4b21 #50421d #443818 #392f14 #2d2510 #221c0c #171308

Tints of olive

#a08439 #b69641 #c2a454 #cab06b #d2bc81 #dac898 #e2d4ae #eae0c5 #f2ecdb #faf8f2

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#314989 Analogous#894531 Analogous#758931 Triadic#318971 Triadic#713189 Split complementary#317589 Split complementary#453189

Olive in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 18, 64, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #897131 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 18 64 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 21 63 52

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 #897131 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #897131; }
.text { color: #897131; }
.border { border: 2px solid #897131; }

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 #897131 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #897131 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 #897131 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 #897131 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

Here is how the numbers for #897131 are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.