Olive

#8d8417

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 #8d8417, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8d8417

RGB141, 132, 23

HSL55, 72%, 32%

HSV55, 84%, 55%

CMYK0%, 6%, 84%, 45%

Lab54.27, -8.53, 54.23

XYZ19.39, 22.23, 4.08

Decimal9274391

Web safe#999900

Pantone392 C

Shades of olive

#827915 #766f13 #6b6411 #5f5910 #544e0e #48440c #3d390a #312e08 #262306 #1a1904

Tints of olive

#a99e1c #c5b920 #dccf2a #e1d546 #e5dc63 #eae27f #efe89b #f3efb7 #f8f5d3 #fcfcf0

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#17208d Analogous#8d4917 Analogous#5b8d17 Triadic#178d84 Triadic#84178d Split complementary#175b8d Split complementary#49178d

Olive in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 6, 84, 45.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8d8417 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 6 84 45

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 10 81 51

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Olive in css

Copy #8d8417 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8d8417; }
.text { color: #8d8417; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8d8417; }

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 #8d8417 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8d8417 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #8d8417 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn olive into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #8d8417 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 #8d8417 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.