Olive drab

#6c8a4d

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

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

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #6c8a4d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6c8a4d

RGB108, 138, 77

HSL90, 28%, 42%

HSV90, 44%, 54%

CMYK22%, 0%, 44%, 46%

Lab53.92, -21.83, 29.21

XYZ16.61, 21.9, 10.37

Decimal7113293

Web safe#669966

Pantone576 C

Shades of olive drab

#637e46 #597240 #506639 #475b33 #3e4f2c #344325 #2b371f #222b18 #191f12 #0f140b

Tints of olive drab

#7a9c57 #88a965 #96b377 #a3bd89 #b1c79b #bfd1ac #cddbbe #dbe5d0 #e8efe2 #f6f9f4

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#6b4d8a Analogous#8a8a4d Analogous#4d8a4d Triadic#4d6c8a Triadic#8a4d6c Split complementary#4d4d8a Split complementary#8a4d8a

Olive drab in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 22, 0, 44, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6c8a4d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

22 0 44 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

24 4 44 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 #6c8a4d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6c8a4d; }
.text { color: #6c8a4d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6c8a4d; }

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 #6c8a4d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6c8a4d 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 #6c8a4d 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 #6c8a4d 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 #6c8a4d are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.