Dark Olive Green color (#556B2F)
Dark Olive Green is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword darkolivegreen
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #556B2F, which is rgb(85, 107, 47) in RGB.
It is a dark, moderately saturated cool color with a hue angle of 82° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 50% in OKLCH. On a dark olive green background, white text gives the higher contrast at 5.94:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Dark Olive Green color codes
| CSS name | darkolivegreen |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #556B2F |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #556B2FFF |
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| RGB | rgb(85, 107, 47) |
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| HSL | hsl(82, 39%, 30%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(82, 56%, 42%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(49.6% 0.0896 126.2) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(20.6%, 0%, 56.1%, 58%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for dark olive green used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of dark olive green
Tints mix dark olive green with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with dark olive green
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Dark Olive Green with color blindness
Approximately how dark olive green appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using dark olive green in CSS
.element {
color: darkolivegreen;
background-color: #556b2f;
border-color: rgb(85 107 47 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(49.6% 0.0896 126.2);
}Similar named colors
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