Olive

#969d1b

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

Olive color values

Every conversion for #969d1b, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#969d1b

RGB150, 157, 27

HSL63, 71%, 36%

HSV63, 83%, 62%

CMYK4%, 0%, 83%, 38%

Lab62.23, -17.57, 60.29

XYZ24.83, 30.68, 5.65

Decimal9870619

Web safe#999933

Pantone384 C

Shades of olive

#899019 #7d8316 #707614 #646912 #575c10 #4b4e0d #3e410b #323409 #252707 #191a04

Tints of olive

#afb720 #c8d224 #d4dd38 #dae152 #dfe66c #e5ea87 #ebefa1 #f0f3bb #f6f8d5 #fcfcf0

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#221b9d Analogous#9d631b Analogous#559d1b Triadic#1b969d Triadic#9d1b96 Split complementary#1b559d Split complementary#631b9d

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 4, 0, 83, 38.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #969d1b on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

4 0 83 38

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

8 4 80 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 in css

Copy #969d1b straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #969d1b; }
.text { color: #969d1b; }
.border { border: 2px solid #969d1b; }

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 #969d1b against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #969d1b 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 #969d1b 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 #969d1b 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

The figures for #969d1b come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.