Olive #808000

About this color

#808000 is a medium-dark, moderately saturated yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 58%, its chroma 0.127 and its hue 110°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Olive. Black text reads best on it, at 5.00:1.

Colors that go with Olive

Matches found by rotating Olive around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Olive

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Olive, closest first.

• Cranberry and Rhubarb
• Hay Hedgerow
• Puddle Recess
• Gravestone and Bat
• Cabinet and Whiteboard
• Mulch Forage
• Paprika Kitchen
• Paprika Rack

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Olive, with their ΔE distance.

• Swamp Green #748500 ΔE 0.022
• Khaki Green #728639 ΔE 0.033
• Murky Green #6C7A0E ΔE 0.036
• Hazel #8E7618 ΔE 0.038
• Swamp #698339 ΔE 0.039
• Olive Green #677A04 ΔE 0.043
• Drab #828344 ΔE 0.044
• Olive Drab #6B8E23 ΔE 0.044

More about Olive

• Shades of brown
• What brown means

How to make Olive

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 3 parts orange
• 2 parts green
• 1 part gray

Recipe result: #7B832F, a difference of ΔE 0.022 from Olive. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make brown? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Olive in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Olive

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F6F6F0

   oklch(97.1% 0.008 106.5)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EAEBDF

   oklch(93.6% 0.016 110.6)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DADBC4

   oklch(88.4% 0.031 109)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C2C49A

   oklch(80.8% 0.057 109.9)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A4A661

   oklch(70.8% 0.091 110)

6. Step 500

   500

   #8E8F30

   oklch(63.1% 0.116 109.9)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #808000

   oklch(58.1% 0.127 109.8)

8. Step 700

   700

   #656500

   oklch(49.1% 0.107 109.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #535300

   oklch(42.8% 0.093 109.8)

10. Step 900

    900

    #44450A

    oklch(37.8% 0.076 110.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #282809

    oklch(26.9% 0.048 109.2)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Olive with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.