Forest green

#5b894a

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. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Forest green color values

Every conversion for #5b894a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5b894a

RGB91, 137, 74

HSL104, 30%, 41%

HSV104, 46%, 54%

CMYK34%, 0%, 46%, 46%

Lab52.52, -28.2, 28.84

XYZ14.5, 20.61, 9.69

Decimal5998922

Web safe#669933

Pantone576 C

Shades of forest green

#537d44 #4b723d #446637 #3c5a31 #344e2a #2c4324 #25371e #1d2b17 #152011 #0d140b

Tints of forest green

#679b54 #75aa61 #85b474 #95be86 #a5c798 #b5d1aa #c5dbbd #d5e5cf #e5efe1 #f5f9f3

Colors that go with forest green

Complementary#784a89 Analogous#7a894a Analogous#4a8959 Triadic#4a5b89 Triadic#894a5b Split complementary#594a89 Split complementary#894a7a

Forest green in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 34, 0, 46, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5b894a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

34 0 46 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

35 4 46 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 #5b894a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5b894a; }
.text { color: #5b894a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5b894a; }

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 #5b894a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5b894a 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 #5b894a 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 #5b894a 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

The figures for #5b894a come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.