Olive

#978f1f

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 #978f1f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#978f1f

RGB151, 143, 31

HSL56, 66%, 36%

HSV56, 79%, 59%

CMYK0%, 5%, 79%, 41%

Lab58.34, -9.62, 55.74

XYZ22.83, 26.32, 5.17

Decimal9932575

Web safe#999933

Pantone619 C

Shades of olive

#8a831c #7e771a #716b17 #655f15 #585412 #4c4810 #3f3c0d #33300a #262408 #191805

Tints of olive

#b1a724 #cac02a #d7cd3c #dcd356 #e2da70 #e7e189 #ece7a3 #f1eebd #f7f5d6 #fcfbf0

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#1f2797 Analogous#97531f Analogous#63971f Triadic#1f978f Triadic#8f1f97 Split complementary#1f6397 Split complementary#531f97

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, 5, 79, 41.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #978f1f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 5 79 41

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 9 77 47

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 #978f1f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #978f1f; }
.text { color: #978f1f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #978f1f; }

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 #978f1f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #978f1f 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 #978f1f 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 #978f1f 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 #978f1f come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.