Olive drab

#6a8a2e

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

This is Olive drab, a soft green at 81 degrees. Deep greens like this read established and premium. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #6a8a2e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6a8a2e

RGB106, 138, 46

HSL81, 50%, 36%

HSV81, 67%, 54%

CMYK23%, 0%, 67%, 46%

Lab53.43, -25.93, 44.0

XYZ15.53, 21.44, 5.9

Decimal6982190

Web safe#669933

Pantone576 C

Shades of olive drab

#617e2a #587326 #4f6722 #475c1f #3e501b #354517 #2c3913 #232e0f #1a220b #121708

Tints of olive drab

#7ca136 #8eb83d #9cc550 #a9cc67 #b6d47e #c3dc95 #d0e3ac #ddebc3 #eaf3db #f7fbf2

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#4e2e8a Analogous#8a7c2e Analogous#3c8a2e Triadic#2e6a8a Triadic#8a2e6a Split complementary#2e3c8a Split complementary#7c2e8a

Olive drab in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 23, 0, 67, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6a8a2e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

23 0 67 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

25 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.

Olive drab in css

Copy #6a8a2e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6a8a2e; }
.text { color: #6a8a2e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6a8a2e; }

How olive drab looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Olive drab and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #6a8a2e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6a8a2e against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive drab on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #6a8a2e sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn olive drab into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #6a8a2e 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 drab, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #6a8a2e are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.