Olive

#7c7f3a

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

Olive is a deep yellow, weighty at this saturation. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Olive color values

Every conversion for #7c7f3a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#7c7f3a

RGB124, 127, 58

HSL63, 37%, 36%

HSV63, 54%, 50%

CMYK2%, 0%, 54%, 50%

Lab51.58, -11.42, 36.62

XYZ16.67, 19.77, 6.94

Decimal8159034

Web safe#666633

Pantone5763 C

Shades of olive

#727435 #676a30 #5d5f2b #535527 #484a22 #3e3f1d #343518 #292a13 #1f200e #15150a

Tints of olive

#919444 #a5a94d #b2b65f #bcc074 #c6c989 #d1d39e #dbddb3 #e5e6c9 #eff0de #f9f9f3

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#3d3a7f Analogous#7f603a Analogous#597f3a Triadic#3a7c7f Triadic#7f3a7c Split complementary#3a597f Split complementary#603a7f

Olive in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 2, 0, 54, 50.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #7c7f3a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

2 0 54 50

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

6 4 54 56

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 in css

Copy #7c7f3a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #7c7f3a; }
.text { color: #7c7f3a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #7c7f3a; }

How olive looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Olive and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #7c7f3a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #7c7f3a against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Olive on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #7c7f3a sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn olive into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #7c7f3a 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, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #7c7f3a is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.