CSS named colour

Olive Drab

#6b8e23

A CSS named colour: olivedrab is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB: rgb(107 142 35)
HSL: 80°, 60%, 35%
OKLCh: 59.9% 0.137 126.3

Olive Drab in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#6b8e23`
RGB	`rgb(107 142 35)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(107, 142, 35)`
RGB percent	`rgb(41.96% 55.69% 13.73%)`
HSL	`hsl(79.6 60.5% 34.7%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(79.6, 60.5%, 34.7%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(79.6, 75.4%, 55.7%)`
HWB	`hwb(79.6 13.7% 44.3%)`
Nearest name	`olivedrab`
CMYK	`cmyk(24.6%, 0%, 75.4%, 44.3%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLCh	`oklch(59.948% 0.13738 126.322)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(59.948% -0.08138 0.11069)`
CIE LCh	`lch(54.829% 54.813 116.612)`
CIE Lab	`lab(54.829% -24.553 49.006)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.4479 0.553 0.2133)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.4114 0.4993 0.1626)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 0.147 0.2705 0.0168)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.1604 0.2259 0.0511)`

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(0.42, 0.557, 0.137)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(0.147, 0.27, 0.017)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(0.42, 0.557, 0.137, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(0.147, 0.27, 0.017, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(107, 142, 35)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(0.42, 0.557, 0.137)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(0.147, 0.27, 0.017)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(0.42, 0.557, 0.137, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(0.42, 0.557, 0.137, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(0.42, 0.557, 0.137)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(0.42, 0.557, 0.137, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(0.147, 0.27, 0.017)`

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Color	`new Color(0.42f, 0.557f, 0.137f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(107, 142, 35, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(0.147f, 0.2705f, 0.0168f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(107, 142, 35, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(0.42, 0.557, 0.137, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFF6B8E23)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(107, 142, 35)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 0.42, green: 0.557, blue: 0.137)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 0.42, green: 0.557, blue: 0.137, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0x6B8E23`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFF6B8E23`
Array 0–1	`[0.42, 0.557, 0.137]`
Array 0–255	`[107, 142, 35]`
Decimal integer	`7048739`

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

Pairing	WCAG 2 ratio	Level	APCA	Suitable for
Olive Drab on white	3.81:1	AA Large	Lc 65	Headings and large text
Olive Drab on black	5.52:1	AA	Lc 36	Non-text elements only

Olive Drab text on a white background

Olive Drab text on a black background

White text on Olive Drab

Black text on Olive Drab

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

50#e6ffb9
100#dbfbac
200#c9eb96
300#b1d47a
400#94b856
500#769a31
600#5e7f13
700#496600
800#375200
900#294100
950#152500

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

Tint 1#82a14f
Tint 2#9ab374
Tint 3#b2c696
Tint 4#cbd9b9
Tint 5#e5ecdc
Shade 1#526e19
Shade 2#3b5010
Shade 3#253407
Shade 4#111902
Shade 5#020400

Colours that work with Olive Drab

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

#9568c0
#2886cd
#c25873
#987e00
#1a985d

Closest CSS names

olivedrabexact match
oliveΔEok 0.044
forestgreenΔEok 0.068
seagreenΔEok 0.073
greenΔEok 0.099
mediumseagreenΔEok 0.110