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Olive Drab

Hex #6B8E23, rgb(107 142 35). A green CSS named color.

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About Olive Drab

Olive Drab is a medium saturated green with the hex code #6B8E23. In RGB it is made of 107 red, 142 green and 35 blue; in HSL its hue is 80°, with 60% saturation and 35% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 59.9%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "olivedrab" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 3.81:1 and against black 5.52:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Olive Drab mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

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Tones (with gray)

Olive Drab 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Olive Drab

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Olive Drab with white and black. The readable text color on Olive Drab is black.

Olive Drab textSmall text on white

On white3.81:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc 65

Olive Drab textSmall text on black

On black5.52:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -36

Black text on Olive Drab (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Olive Drab appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#96840D
  • Deuteranopia#91822D
  • Tritanopia#708779
  • Protanomaly#8C871A
  • Deuteranomaly#8A852A
  • Tritanomaly#6C8B58
  • Achromatopsia#838383

Colors similar to Olive Drab

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Olive Drab in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.olive-drab {
  color: olivedrab; /* #6B8E23 */
  background-color: rgb(107 142 35);
  border-color: oklch(59.9% 0.137 126.3);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-olive-drab-500, text-olive-drab-700... */
@theme {
  --color-olive-drab-50: #F8FBF4;
  --color-olive-drab-100: #EBF2E2;
  --color-olive-drab-200: #D7E4C6;
  --color-olive-drab-300: #B9D099;
  --color-olive-drab-400: #92B35C;
  --color-olive-drab-500: #7BA134;
  --color-olive-drab-600: #6B8E23;
  --color-olive-drab-700: #547215;
  --color-olive-drab-800: #435A13;
  --color-olive-drab-900: #354811;
  --color-olive-drab-950: #101A00;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#6B8E23] text-[#000000]">…</div>