Olive drab

#549b21

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 strong. 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 #549b21, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#549b21

RGB84, 155, 33

HSL95, 65%, 37%

HSV95, 79%, 61%

CMYK46%, 0%, 79%, 39%

Lab57.5, -42.75, 52.68

XYZ15.65, 25.44, 5.52

Decimal5544737

Web safe#669933

Pantone370 C

Shades of olive drab

#4d8e1e #46811b #3f7419 #386716 #315a13 #2a4d10 #23400e #1c330b #152608 #0e1905

Tints of olive drab

#62b426 #6fcd2c #7fd641 #90dc5a #a1e173 #b2e78c #c3eca5 #d3f1be #e4f7d7 #f5fcf0

Colors that go with olive drab

Complementary#68219b Analogous#919b21 Analogous#219b2b Triadic#21549b Triadic#9b2154 Split complementary#2b219b Split complementary#9b2191

Olive drab in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 46, 0, 79, 39.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #549b21 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

46 0 79 39

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

46 4 77 45

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 #549b21 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #549b21; }
.text { color: #549b21; }
.border { border: 2px solid #549b21; }

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 #549b21 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #549b21 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 #549b21 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 #549b21 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 #549b21 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.