Olive drab

#909d3a

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

Olive drab falls in the yellow band, deep and soft. 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 drab color values

Every conversion for #909d3a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#909d3a
RGB144, 157, 58
HSL68, 46%, 42%
HSV68, 63%, 62%
CMYK8%, 0%, 63%, 38%
Lab61.95, -18.57, 48.66
XYZ24.32, 30.35, 8.58
Decimal9477434
Web safe#999933
Pantone384 C
Pantone384 CHex#909d3aRgb144 157 58Cmyk8 0 63 38Lab62 -19 49Darker#303513Deep#606927Lighter#b1be61

Shades of olive drab

Tints of olive drab

Colors that go with olive drab

Olive drab in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 8, 0, 63, 38.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #909d3a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C
8 0 63 38
Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.
Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U
11 4 62 44
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 #909d3a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #909d3a; }
.text { color: #909d3a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #909d3a; }

How olive drab looks on light and dark

Olive drab and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #909d3a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Textwhite text on this color
2.97:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Textblack text on this color
7.07:1
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #909d3a 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 #909d3a sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Your nameFounderhello@brand.comBusiness 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 #909d3a and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

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 #909d3a 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. 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.