Olive color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around olive. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Olive is #808000 — deep vivid yellow. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and olive color palettes to copy.

Olive hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#808000
HEX
#808000
RGB
rgb(128, 128, 0)
HSL
hsl(60, 100%, 25%)
OKLCH
oklch(58.1% 0.127 109.8)
On white
4.20:1
On black
5.01:1

Shades of olive

Eleven steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Contrast and readability

Olive on white measures 4.20:1 and on black 5.01:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.17:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Related colors:green, lime green, mint, emerald, hunter green. See every shade on the colors index.