Olive

#8a7213

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

This is Olive, a strong yellow at 48 degrees. 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 #8a7213, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8a7213

RGB138, 114, 19

HSL48, 76%, 31%

HSV48, 86%, 54%

CMYK0%, 17%, 86%, 46%

Lab48.87, -0.02, 50.67

XYZ16.62, 17.48, 3.12

Decimal9073171

Web safe#996600

Pantone119 C

Shades of olive

#7f6911 #746010 #69560e #5e4d0d #52440b #473b0a #3c3208 #312907 #261f05 #1b1604

Tints of olive

#a78a17 #c5a31b #e0ba21 #e5c33f #e9cc5c #edd579 #f1df97 #f5e8b4 #f9f1d2 #fdfaef

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#132b8a Analogous#8a3613 Analogous#678a13 Triadic#138a72 Triadic#72138a Split complementary#13678a Split complementary#36138a

Olive 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 0, 17, 86, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8a7213 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 17 86 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 20 83 52

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 in css

Copy #8a7213 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8a7213; }
.text { color: #8a7213; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8a7213; }

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 #8a7213 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8a7213 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 #8a7213 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 #8a7213 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 #8a7213 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. 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.