Dark Olive

About Dark Olive

Dark Olive is the hex color #4A5D23, which translates to rgb(74, 93, 35) in RGB and hsl(80, 45%, 25%) in HSL. On the color wheel it sits at 80 degrees, with a saturation of 45 percent and a lightness of 25 percent. That combination puts Dark Olive in the workable middle of the green family, neither pastel nor fully saturated.

How Dark Olive compares

The closest standard CSS keyword is darkolivegreen (#556B2F), a CIE76 distance of 5.7 away in CIELAB. That is a visible difference, so the keyword is not a substitute here. In the Tailwind CSS 4.3.1 palette the nearest token is lime-900 (#35530E), at a distance of 8.5. Inside this library the closest neighbour is Fern at 13.0. Sorted by lightness, Dark Olive is number 5 of the 30 green colors here.

Text on Dark Olive

2 of the five common text colors below clear WCAG AA for normal text on Dark Olive, led by White at 7.29:1. The ratios are computed with the WCAG relative luminance formula, the same one the contrast checker uses, which opens with Dark Olive already loaded as the background.

Building a palette around Dark Olive

The pairings above give you three classic starting points. The complementary color sits opposite on the wheel and works well as an accent that draws the eye. The analogous colors sit right beside Dark Olive for calmer, harmonious combinations. The triadic pair spaces three hues evenly for a balanced, energetic palette. Open any swatch to explore it as its own color.

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