Dark Olive

The color code of Dark Olive indicates, that green is the main light source among the primary colors red, green and blue. Together with red it forms the basic color yellow, which determines the initial color impression along with the remains of green. Learn more …

But due to the large amount of achromatic basic colors like black and white the colorfulness of Dark Olive is strongly limited: The mixture ratio between chromatic and achromatic basic colors results in 18 % saturation. Since the inherent brightness of its contained basic colors sums up to a perceived brightness of 18 %, Dark Olive is a quite dark color.

Hex	`#283205`
RGB	`rgb(40, 50, 5)`
HSL*	`hsl(73, 82%, 11%)`
Lab*	`18.98 -11.77 24.65`
CMYK*	`20% 0% 90% 80%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

80 %

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