Olive

#988b3f

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

This is Olive, a soft yellow at 51 degrees. 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 #988b3f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#988b3f

RGB152, 139, 63

HSL51, 41%, 42%

HSV51, 59%, 60%

CMYK0%, 9%, 59%, 40%

Lab57.56, -5.13, 41.66

XYZ23.08, 25.5, 8.41

Decimal9997119

Web safe#999933

Pantone4505 C

Shades of olive

#8b7f3a #7e7334 #71672f #645b29 #574f24 #4a431f #3d3819 #302c14 #23200e #161409

Tints of olive

#ac9d47 #b9aa56 #c1b469 #c9be7d #d1c890 #d9d2a4 #e1dbb8 #eae5cb #f2efdf #faf9f2

Colors that go with olive

Complementary#3f4c98 Analogous#985e3f Analogous#79983f Triadic#3f988b Triadic#8b3f98 Split complementary#3f7898 Split complementary#5f3f98

Olive in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 9, 59, 40.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #988b3f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 9 59 40

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 12 58 46

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 #988b3f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #988b3f; }
.text { color: #988b3f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #988b3f; }

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 #988b3f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #988b3f 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 #988b3f 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 #988b3f 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

The figures for #988b3f come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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. The Pantone value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.