Dark khaki

#a8a12f

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

This is Dark khaki, a strong yellow at 57 degrees. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Dark khaki color values

Every conversion for #a8a12f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a8a12f

RGB168, 161, 47

HSL57, 56%, 42%

HSV57, 72%, 66%

CMYK0%, 4%, 72%, 34%

Lab64.98, -10.87, 56.89

XYZ29.41, 34.02, 7.71

Decimal11051311

Web safe#999933

Pantone391 C

Shades of dark khaki

#9a932b #8b8527 #7d7823 #6e6a1f #605c1b #524e17 #434013 #35330f #26250b #181707

Tints of dark khaki

#beb635 #cbc344 #d1ca59 #d7d16f #ddd885 #e3df9a #e9e6b0 #efedc6 #f5f4db #fbfbf1

Colors that go with dark khaki

Complementary#2f36a8 Analogous#a8642f Analogous#72a82f Triadic#2fa8a1 Triadic#a12fa8 Split complementary#2f72a8 Split complementary#642fa8

Dark khaki in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 4, 72, 34.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a8a12f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 4 72 34

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 8 70 40

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.

Dark khaki in css

Copy #a8a12f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a8a12f; }
.text { color: #a8a12f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a8a12f; }

How dark khaki looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Dark khaki and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #a8a12f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a8a12f against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark khaki on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a8a12f sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around dark khaki? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn dark khaki into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a8a12f 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 dark khaki, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #a8a12f 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. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.