Forest green

#2d8a2e

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

Forest green sits in the green range, deep and soft. Deep greens like this read established and premium. Warm terracotta and clay across the wheel balance it and cream keeps it fresh.

Forest green color values

Every conversion for #2d8a2e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#2d8a2e

RGB45, 138, 46

HSL121, 51%, 36%

HSV121, 67%, 54%

CMYK67%, 0%, 67%, 46%

Lab50.61, -45.95, 40.12

XYZ10.66, 18.93, 5.68

Decimal2984494

Web safe#339933

Pantone363 C

Shades of forest green

#297f2a #267326 #226823 #1e5c1f #1a511b #174517 #133a13 #0f2e0f #0b230c #081708

Tints of forest green

#35a136 #3cb93e #4ec550 #66cd67 #7dd57e #94dc95 #ace4ac #c3ebc3 #daf3da #f2fbf2

Colors that go with forest green

Complementary#8a2d89 Analogous#5a8a2d Analogous#2d8a5c Triadic#2e2d8a Triadic#8a2e2d Split complementary#5d2d8a Split complementary#8a2d5a

Forest green in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 67, 0, 67, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #2d8a2e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

67 0 67 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

66 4 66 52

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.

Forest green in css

Copy #2d8a2e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #2d8a2e; }
.text { color: #2d8a2e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #2d8a2e; }

How forest green looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Forest green and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #2d8a2e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #2d8a2e against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Forest green on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #2d8a2e sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around forest green? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn forest green into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #2d8a2e 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 forest green, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #2d8a2e 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.