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Everything about the color Olive
The meaning of the color Olive and color combinations to inspire your next design.
The color of combat and camouflage, olive is a yellowish-green heavily used in everything military—from uniforms to weapons. Olive is named after the fruit which dons the yellowish-green hue. The hex code for olive is #808000.
Regardless of its militarized nature, olive can be combined with purples for a stunning composition. It also works well with bright blues and orange hues. Olive can be a neutral and, just like other neutral colors shared in this list, can be combined with other neutrals for a sophisticated and elegant palette.
Looking for a different hue? The following colors are related to olive.
Information about Olive / #808000
In a RGB color space (made from three colored lights for red, green, and blue), hex #808000 is made of 50.2% red, 50.2% green and 0% blue. In a CMYK color space (also known as process color, or four color, and used in color printing), hex #808000 is made of 0% cyan, 0% magenta, 100% yellow and 50% black. Olive has a hue angle of 60 degrees, a saturation of 100% and a lightness of 25.1%.
Color conversion
The hexadecimal color #808000 has RGB values of R: 50.2, G: 50.2, B: 0 and CMYK values of C: 0, M: 0, Y: 1, K:0.5.
| Value | CSS | |
|---|---|---|
| Hex | 808000 | #808000 |
| RGB Decimal | 128, 128, 0 | rgb(128,128,0) |
| RGB Percentage | 50.2, 50.2, 0 | rgb(50.2%, 50.2%, 0%) |
| CMYK | 0, 0, 100, 50 | |
| HSL | 60°, 100, 25.1 | hsl(60°, 100%, 25.1%) |
| HSV (or HSB) | 60°, 100, 50.2 | |
| Web Safe | 999900 | #999900 |
| CIE-LAB | 51.869, -12.929, 56.675 | |
| XYZ | 16.622, 20.028, 2.99 | |
| xyY | 0.419, 0.505, 20.028 | |
| CIE-LCH | 51.869, 58.131, 102.851 | |
| CIE-LUV | 51.869, 4.115, 57.02 | |
| Hunter-Lab | 44.753, -9.782, 25.888 | |
| Binary | 10000000, 10000000, 00000000 |
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