Colors Encyclopedia

Named color

Olive Green

Olive Green is an earth tone and muted green color with HEX #708238. According to Colors Encyclopedia, it has RGB 112, 130, 56, HSL 75, 40%, 36%, warm temperature, and is useful for heritage palettes, outdoor brands, and natural product design.

#708238 green warm earth-tonemuted
HEX #708238
RGB rgb(112, 130, 56)
HSL hsl(75 40% 36%)
CMYK cmyk(14, 0, 57, 49)
Luminance 0.197
Contrast Black 4.94:1White 4.25:1

CSS Utilities

--color-olive-green: #708238;
.bg-olive-green { background-color: #708238; }
.text-olive-green { color: #708238; }
Open CSS utility pageReusable variables, classes, examples, and implementation notes

Machine-readable data

Machine-Readable Color Data (JSON)

Perfect for CSS, design systems, automation, and AI ingestion.

AI-Ready Dataset v1.0.0
Luminance0.197
Black text4.94:1AA Pass
White text4.25:1AA Fail
hexCanonical HEX value
rgbRed, green, blue channels
hslHue, saturation, lightness
cmykApproximate print conversion
wcagAA and AAA contrast options
harmoniesMathematical harmony sets
variantsGenerated tone variants
nearestColorsKnowledge graph neighbors
Download JSON Open API
Structured sections
Color systems
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  }
}
WCAG
{
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    "#000000"
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  "AAA": []
}
Harmonies
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Variants
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  "pastel": "#A8B483",
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}
Pairings
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    "#A1B95B",
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  ]
}
Knowledge graph
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}
Full JSON dataset 
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  ],
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    ],
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    ],
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    ]
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Color meaning and use

About Olive Green Color

Olive Green sits in the green family with warm temperature and earth tone and muted visual character. Standard CSS named color.

Its common associations include earthiness, durability, and natural restraint, which makes it relevant for outdoor apparel and heritage branding. In design work, Olive Green is most useful for heritage palettes, outdoor brands, and natural product design, especially when paired with black text for stronger contrast.

Related Color Guides

Green color familyBrowse named green colors and compare nearby swatches.Warm colorsExplore colors with warm temperature behavior.Earth Tone colorsFind colors with earth tone visual character.Muted colorsFind colors with muted visual character.Olive Green accessibilityCheck contrast and WCAG text options for #708238.Olive Green CSS utilitiesUse Olive Green in CSS variables and utility classes.#708238 HEX atlasOpen the permanent HEX atlas record for conversions and variants.Olive Green paletteOpen the generated palette based on Olive Green.Olive Green harmoniesExplore complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic harmonies.

WCAG Accessibility

Contrast checks for Olive Green against black and white text.

Black text4.94:1AA Pass
White text4.25:1AA Fail
AA text options#000000
AAA text optionsNone in seed set
Open WCAG pageDetailed contrast notes, warnings, alternatives, and UI examples

Similar Colors

Olive Drab#6B8E23
Olive Leaf#6B8E23
Fern Frond#657220
Raw Umber#826644
Fern Green#4F7942

Color Harmonies

#493781#493781
#816E37#816E37
#498137#498137
#376E81#376E81
#81376E#81376E
Open full Olive Green harmony pageComplementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split, and monochromatic sets

Variants

#A1B95B#A1B95B
#37401C#37401C
#789523#789523
#646C4B#646C4B
#A8B483#A8B483
#A8E000#A8E000

Pairings

Black#000000
#493781#493781
#816E37#816E37
#498137#498137
Matte Black#1A1A1A
White Smoke#F5F5F5