Olive

#8f7512

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. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Olive color values

Every conversion for #8f7512, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8f7512

RGB143, 117, 18

HSL48, 78%, 32%

HSV48, 87%, 56%

CMYK0%, 18%, 87%, 44%

Lab50.22, 0.61, 52.29

XYZ17.8, 18.61, 3.23

Decimal9401618

Web safe#996600

Pantone119 C

Shades of olive

#836c11 #78620f #6c590e #614f0c #55460b #4a3c09 #3e3308 #322906 #272005 #1b1603

Tints of olive

#ac8d16 #caa519 #e3bb21 #e7c43f #eacd5c #eed679 #f2df97 #f6e8b4 #f9f1d2 #fdfaef

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#122c8f Analogous#8f3612 Analogous#6a8f12 Triadic#128f75 Triadic#75128f Split complementary#126a8f Split complementary#36128f

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, 18, 87, 44.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8f7512 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 18 87 44

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 21 84 50

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 #8f7512 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8f7512; }
.text { color: #8f7512; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8f7512; }

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 #8f7512 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8f7512 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 #8f7512 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 #8f7512 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 #8f7512 are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.