Olive

#9b8d31

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 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 color values

Every conversion for #9b8d31, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#9b8d31

RGB155, 141, 49

HSL52, 52%, 40%

HSV52, 68%, 61%

CMYK0%, 9%, 68%, 39%

Lab58.26, -5.85, 48.98

XYZ23.6, 26.24, 6.73

Decimal10194225

Web safe#999933

Pantone619 C

Shades of olive

#8e812d #817529 #736925 #665d20 #59511c #4c4518 #3f3914 #322d10 #24210c #171507

Tints of olive

#b1a138 #c3b242 #cabb58 #d1c46e #d8cd84 #dfd69a #e6dfb0 #ede8c6 #f4f1dc #fbf9f1

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#313f9b Analogous#9b5831 Analogous#749b31 Triadic#319b8d Triadic#8d319b Split complementary#31749b Split complementary#58319b

Olive in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 9, 68, 39.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #9b8d31 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 9 68 39

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 12 67 45

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Olive in css

Copy #9b8d31 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #9b8d31; }
.text { color: #9b8d31; }
.border { border: 2px solid #9b8d31; }

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 #9b8d31 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #9b8d31 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #9b8d31 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn olive into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #9b8d31 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 #9b8d31 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. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.