Dark Olive

The color code of Dark Olive indicates, that red and green are the main light sources among the primary colors red, green and blue. Both combined form the basic color yellow, which determines the initial color impression. 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 20 % saturation. Since the inherent brightness of its contained basic colors sums up to a perceived brightness of 30 %, Dark Olive is a rather dark color.

Hex	`#4f501b`
RGB	`rgb(79, 80, 27)`
HSL*	`hsl(61, 50%, 21%)`
Lab*	`32.87 -8.41 30.22`
CMYK*	`1% 0% 66% 69%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

69 %

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