| Olive | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #808000 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (128, 128, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (60°, 100%, 50%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (52, 57, 86°) |
| Source | X11 color names |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light olive |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | |
Olive is a dark yellowish-green color, [1] like that of unripe or green olives.
As a color word in the English language, it appears in late Middle English.
| Olivine | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #9AB973 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (154, 185, 115) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (87°, 38%, 73%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (71, 48, 108°) |
| Source | /Maerz & Paul [2] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate yellow green |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Olivine is the typical color of the mineral olivine.
The first recorded use of olivine as a color name in English was in 1912. [3]
| Olive drab | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #6B8E23 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (107, 142, 35) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (80°, 75%, 56%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (55, 60, 107°) |
| Source | X11 color names |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Strong yellow green |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
| Olive drab camouflage | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #544F3D |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (84, 79, 61) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (47°, 27%, 33%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (34, 14, 73°) |
| Source | Federal Standard 595 33070 |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Grayish olive |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Olive drab is variously described as a "dull olive-green colour" (Oxford English Dictionary); [4] "a shade of greenish-brown" (Webster's New World Dictionary); [5] "a dark gray-green" (MacMillan English dictionary); "a grayish olive to dark olive brown or olive gray" (American Heritage Dictionary); [6] or "A dull but fairly strong gray-green color" (Collins English Dictionary). It is widely used as a camouflage color for uniforms and equipment in the armed forces.
The first recorded use of olive drab as a color name in English was in 1892. [7] Drab is an older color name, from the middle of the 16th century. It refers to a dull light brown color, the color of cloth made from undyed homespun wool. It took its name from the old French word for cloth, drap. [4]
There are many shades and variations of olive drab. Various shades were used on United States Army uniforms in World War II. The shade used for enlisted soldier's uniforms at the beginning of the war was officially called Olive Drab #33 (OD33), while officer's uniforms used the much darker Olive Drab #51 (OD51). Field equipment was in Olive Drab #3 (OD3), a very light, almost khaki shade. In 1943 new field uniforms and equipment were produced in the darker Olive Drab #7 (OD7). This was in turn replaced by the slightly grayer Olive Green 107 (OG-107) in 1952, [8] which continued as the color of combat uniforms through the Vietnam War until the adoption in 1981 of the four-color-camouflage-patterned M81 Battle Dress Uniform, which retained olive drab as one of the color swatches in the pattern. The shade used for painting vehicles is defined by Federal Standard 595 in the United States. [9]
As a solid color, it is not as effective for camouflage as multi-color patterns, though it is still used by the U.S. military to color webbing and accessories. The armies of Israel, India, Cuba, and Venezuela wear solid-color olive drab uniforms.
In the American novel A Separate Peace , Finny says to Gene, "...and in these times of war, we all see olive drab, and we all know it is the patriotic color. All others aren't about the war; they aren't patriotic."
Pantone 448 C, "the ugliest color in the world" commonly used in plain tobacco packaging, was initially described as a shade of olive green. [10]
| Black olive | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #3B3C36 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (59, 60, 54) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (70°, 10%, 24%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (25, 4, 93°) |
| Source | RAL / ColorsData [11] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark grayish olive green |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Black olive is a color in the RAL color matching system. It is designated as RAL 6015.
The color "black olive" is a representation of the color of black olives.
The color khaki is a light shade of tan with a slight yellowish tinge.
Navy blue is a dark shade of the color blue.
Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool. It has come to be used to describe a variety of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance.
Bistre is a pigment made from soot. Historically, beechwood was burned to produce the soot, which was boiled and diluted with water. Many Old Masters used bistre as the ink for their wash paintings. Bistre's appearance is generally of a dark grayish brown, with a yellowish cast.
Venetian red is a light and warm (somewhat unsaturated) pigment that is a darker shade of red. The composition of Venetian red changed over time. Originally it consisted of natural ferric oxide (Fe2O3, partially hydrated) obtained from the red hematite. Modern versions are frequently made with synthetic red iron oxide produced via calcination of green vitriol (a.k.a. copperas) mixed with white chalk. The pigment contains up to 50% of the ferric oxide.
Mahogany is a reddish-brown color. It is approximately the color of the wood mahogany. However, the wood itself, like most woods, is not uniformly the same color and is not recognized as a color by most.
Spring green is a color that was traditionally considered to be on the yellow side of green, but in modern computer systems based on the RGB color model is halfway between cyan and green on the color wheel.
Taupe is a dark gray-brown color. The word derives from the French noun taupe meaning "mole". The name originally referred only to the average color of the French mole, but beginning in the 1940s, its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades.
Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors are shown below.
Desert sand is a very light and very weakly saturated reddish yellow colour which corresponds specifically to the coloration of sand. It may also be regarded as a deep tone of beige.
Livid is a medium bluish-gray color. This color name comes from the Latin color term lividus meaning "'a dull leaden-blue color', and also used to describe the color of contused flesh, leading to the English expression 'black and blue'". The first recorded use of livid as a color name in English was in 1622.
Varieties of the color blue may differ in hue, chroma, or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a blue or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these colors are shown below.
Shades of white are colors that differ only slightly from pure white. Variations of white include what are commonly termed off-white colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme.
Variations of gray or grey include achromatic grayscale shades, which lie exactly between white and black, and nearby colors with low colorfulness. A selection of a number of these various colors is shown below.
The color cyan, a greenish-blue, has notable tints and shades. It is one of the subtractive primary colors along with magenta, and yellow.
Shades of brown can be produced by combining red, yellow, and black pigments, or by a combination of orange and black—illustrated in the color box. The RGB color model, that generates all colors on computer and television screens, makes brown by combining red and green light at different intensities. Brown color names are often imprecise, and some shades, such as beige, can refer to lighter rather than darker shades of yellow and red. Such colors are less saturated than colors perceived to be orange. Browns are usually described as light or dark, reddish, yellowish, or gray-brown. There are no standardized names for shades of brown; the same shade may have different names on different color lists, and sometimes one name can refer to several very different colors. The X11 color list of web colors has seventeen different shades of brown, but the complete list of browns is much longer.
Shades of black are colors that differ only slightly from pure black. These colors have a low lightness. From a photometric point of view, a color which differs slightly from black always has low relative luminance. Variations of black include what are commonly termed off-black colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme, usually in interior design as a part of a background for brighter colors. Black and dark gray colors are powerful accent colors that suggest weight, dignity, formality, and solemnity.
Drab is a dull, light-brown color. It originally took its name from a fabric of the same color made of undyed, homespun wool. The word was first used in English in 1686. It probably originated from the Old French word drap, which meant cloth.
Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel.
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