Olive drab

#8ea521

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

This is Olive drab, a strong green at 70 degrees. Deep greens like this read established and premium. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #8ea521, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8ea521

RGB142, 165, 33

HSL70, 67%, 39%

HSV70, 80%, 65%

CMYK14%, 0%, 80%, 35%

Lab63.97, -24.85, 59.91

XYZ24.88, 32.77, 6.45

Decimal9348385

Web safe#999933

Pantone384 C

Shades of olive drab

#82971e #76891b #6a7b19 #5e6d16 #525f13 #465110 #3a430d #2e350b #222708 #161a05

Tints of olive drab

#a3be26 #b7d52c #c0da45 #c8df5d #d0e476 #d9e88e #e1eda7 #e9f2bf #f2f7d8 #fafcf0

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#3821a5 Analogous#a57a21 Analogous#4ca521 Triadic#218ea5 Triadic#a5218e Split complementary#214ca5 Split complementary#7a21a5

Olive drab in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 14, 0, 80, 35.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8ea521 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

14 0 80 35

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

17 4 78 41

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 drab in css

Copy #8ea521 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8ea521; }
.text { color: #8ea521; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8ea521; }

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 #8ea521 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8ea521 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive drab on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #8ea521 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn olive drab into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #8ea521 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

The figures for #8ea521 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. 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.