Olive drab

#87aa5d

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

Olive drab is a mid green that feels confident. A mid green this grounded suits sustainability and outdoor brands. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Olive drab color values

Every conversion for #87aa5d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#87aa5d

RGB135, 170, 93

HSL87, 31%, 52%

HSV87, 45%, 67%

CMYK21%, 0%, 45%, 33%

Lab65.51, -25.33, 35.73

XYZ26.34, 34.69, 15.66

Decimal8890973

Web safe#999966

Pantone5777 C

Shades of olive drab

#7b9d53 #6f8e4b #637f43 #57703b #4b6033 #40512b #344223 #28331b #1c2313 #10140b

Tints of olive drab

#92b26c #9dba7b #a8c28a #b4ca99 #bfd1a8 #cad9b7 #d5e1c6 #e0e9d5 #ebf1e4 #f6f9f3

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#805daa Analogous#aaa65d Analogous#61aa5d Triadic#5d87aa Triadic#aa5d87 Split complementary#5d60aa Split complementary#a65daa

Olive drab in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 21, 0, 45, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #87aa5d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

21 0 45 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

23 4 45 39

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 #87aa5d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #87aa5d; }
.text { color: #87aa5d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #87aa5d; }

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 #87aa5d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #87aa5d 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 #87aa5d 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 #87aa5d 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 #87aa5d 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.