Pale Olive

The color code of Pale 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 Pale 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 76 %, Pale Olive is a quite light color.

Hex	`#b9c996`
RGB	`rgb(185, 201, 150)`
HSL*	`hsl(79, 32%, 69%)`
Lab*	`78.63 -14.19 23.73`
CMYK*	`8% 0% 25% 21%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

59 %

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