Olive

#948331

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

Olive is a deep yellow, serious at this saturation. 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 #948331, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#948331

RGB148, 131, 49

HSL50, 50%, 39%

HSV50, 67%, 58%

CMYK0%, 11%, 67%, 42%

Lab54.81, -3.52, 45.16

XYZ20.88, 22.75, 6.2

Decimal9732913

Web safe#999933

Pantone456 C

Shades of olive

#87782d #7b6d29 #6e6225 #625720 #554c1c #494118 #3c3614 #302a10 #231f0c #171408

Tints of olive

#aa9738 #c0aa40 #c7b456 #cfbe6d #d6c883 #ddd199 #e5dbaf #ece5c5 #f3efdb #fbf9f2

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#314294 Analogous#945231 Analogous#739431 Triadic#319483 Triadic#833194 Split complementary#317394 Split complementary#523194

Olive in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 11, 67, 42.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #948331 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 11 67 42

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 14 66 48

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 in css

Copy #948331 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #948331; }
.text { color: #948331; }
.border { border: 2px solid #948331; }

How olive looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Olive and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #948331 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #948331 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 #948331 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 #948331 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 #948331 are worked out. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.