Dark khaki

#bdbe78

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

This is Dark khaki, a soft yellow at 61 degrees. A yellow this strong grabs attention fast, good for warnings and energy brands. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Dark khaki color values

Every conversion for #bdbe78, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bdbe78

RGB189, 190, 120

HSL61, 35%, 61%

HSV61, 37%, 75%

CMYK1%, 0%, 37%, 25%

Lab75.45, -10.98, 35.25

XYZ42.79, 49.0, 24.97

Decimal12435064

Web safe#cccc66

Pantone617 C

Shades of dark khaki

#b4b565 #aaac53 #98994a #858640 #727337 #5f602e #4d4d25 #3a3a1c #272813 #15150a

Tints of dark khaki

#c3c484 #c9ca91 #cfd09d #d5d6a9 #dbdcb5 #e1e2c2 #e7e7ce #ededda #f3f3e7 #f9f9f3

Colors that go with dark khaki

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Dark khaki in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 1, 0, 37, 25.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bdbe78 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

1 0 37 25

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

5 4 38 31

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.

Dark khaki in css

Copy #bdbe78 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bdbe78; }
.text { color: #bdbe78; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bdbe78; }

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 #bdbe78 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bdbe78 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark khaki on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #bdbe78 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn dark khaki into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #bdbe78 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

Here is how the numbers for #bdbe78 are worked out. 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.