Olive

#969318

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. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Olive color values

Every conversion for #969318, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#969318

RGB150, 147, 24

HSL59, 72%, 34%

HSV59, 84%, 59%

CMYK0%, 2%, 84%, 41%

Lab59.36, -12.45, 58.62

XYZ23.18, 27.42, 4.93

Decimal9868056

Web safe#999900

Pantone399 C

Shades of olive

#8a8716 #7d7b14 #716f12 #656310 #58560e #4c4a0c #3f3e0a #333208 #272606 #1a1a04

Tints of olive

#b1ae1c #cdc921 #deda30 #e2df4b #e7e466 #ebe882 #efed9d #f4f2b9 #f8f7d4 #fdfcf0

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#181b96 Analogous#965418 Analogous#5a9618 Triadic#189693 Triadic#931896 Split complementary#185a96 Split complementary#541896

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, 2, 84, 41.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #969318 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 2 84 41

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 6 81 47

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 #969318 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #969318; }
.text { color: #969318; }
.border { border: 2px solid #969318; }

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 #969318 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #969318 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 #969318 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 #969318 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 #969318 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.