Olive

#897519

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 strong. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Olive color values

Every conversion for #897519, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#897519

RGB137, 117, 25

HSL49, 69%, 32%

HSV49, 82%, 54%

CMYK0%, 15%, 82%, 46%

Lab49.63, -1.99, 49.4

XYZ16.85, 18.11, 3.53

Decimal9008409

Web safe#996600

Pantone119 C

Shades of olive

#7e6c17 #736215 #685913 #5d4f11 #51460f #463c0d #3b330b #302909 #252007 #1a1605

Tints of olive

#a58d1e #c1a523 #d9ba2c #dec348 #e3cc64 #e8d580 #eddf9c #f2e8b8 #f7f1d4 #fcfaf0

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#192d89 Analogous#893d19 Analogous#658919 Triadic#198975 Triadic#751989 Split complementary#196589 Split complementary#3d1989

Olive in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 15, 82, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #897519 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 15 82 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 18 79 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 #897519 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #897519; }
.text { color: #897519; }
.border { border: 2px solid #897519; }

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 #897519 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #897519 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 #897519 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 #897519 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 #897519 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.