Olive drab

#8a905e

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

This is Olive drab, a muted yellow at 67 degrees. A yellow this strong grabs attention fast, good for warnings and energy brands. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #8a905e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8a905e

RGB138, 144, 94

HSL67, 21%, 47%

HSV67, 35%, 56%

CMYK4%, 0%, 35%, 44%

Lab58.19, -10.58, 25.88

XYZ22.47, 26.16, 14.45

Decimal9080926

Web safe#999966

Pantone5767 C

Shades of olive drab

#7e8356 #72774e #666a45 #5a5e3d #4e5135 #42452d #363825 #2a2c1c #1e1f14 #12130c

Tints of olive drab

#979e6a #a2a879 #adb289 #b7bc98 #c2c6a7 #cdd0b7 #d7dac6 #e2e4d5 #edeee5 #f8f8f4

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#645e90 Analogous#907d5e Analogous#71905e Triadic#5e8a90 Triadic#905e8a Split complementary#5e7190 Split complementary#7d5e90

Olive drab in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 4, 0, 35, 44.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8a905e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

4 0 35 44

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

8 4 36 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 drab in css

Copy #8a905e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8a905e; }
.text { color: #8a905e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8a905e; }

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 #8a905e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8a905e 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 #8a905e 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 #8a905e 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 #8a905e are worked out. 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.