Dark Olive Green color: #556b2f
The CSS keyword darkolivegreen is #556b2f, rgb(85, 107, 47) or hsl(82, 39%, 30%). Its codes to copy, 50–950 tint scale, harmonies and contrast on white and black.
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About Dark Olive Green
Dark Olive Green is a dark green. Its hue sits at 126° in OKLCH and 82° in HSL — the two wheels are spaced differently, which is why the numbers disagree.
The keyword darkolivegreen comes from the X Window System color list, which SVG 1.0 adopted and CSS Color Level 3 brought to every stylesheet.
Dark Olive Green tint scale, 50 to 950
Eleven steps at fixed perceived lightness, in OKLCH, holding darkolivegreen’s own hue from end to end. The keyword itself falls closest to step 600 (#5f753a), the one outlined; step 500 is #789053.
Harmonies built on Dark Olive Green
Hue angles measured in OKLCH, so every accent keeps darkolivegreen’s perceived lightness. Its complement is #6f548a, closest to the named color rebeccapurple.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-complementary
Dark Olive Green on white and on black
White text reads better on darkolivegreen (5.94:1). As a text color it is readable on a white page (5.94:1, AA). AA asks 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text; AAA asks 7:1.
Named colors close to Dark Olive Green
Open darkolivegreen in the full tools
- Open in Color Converter — convert it to any other notation.
- Open in Palette Generator — export its scale as --darkolivegreen-50 … --darkolivegreen-950 tokens.
- Open in Color Harmonies — turn the wheel and compare OKLCH with HSL.
- Open in Contrast Checker — test it against any background, with the closest passing shade.
- Open in Color System Generator — derive a light and dark token set from it.
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