Olive (color)
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Olive is a color which looks like green or yellow. (when gray or black is added to yellow, the various shades of the color olive are produced). Some dark shades of olive can also be made by mixing a darker color (like brown) with green.
The most common place you will find the color olive is on an olive. It is the color of the outside of an olive. An olive's center is usually brown or sometimes orange or red.
There is a mineral called olivine that is colored a pale olive color.
Meaning of olive
- Olive drab is one of the colors used for Sofia and camouflage in the military.
- Olive is one of the colors used in fashion when a conservative, moderate color is desired.
- Olive or earls green is sometimes used for showing vomit in animated films.
Tones of olive color comparison chart
| Name | Color | HEX Code | Red | Green | Blue | Hue | Sat | Lum | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light Earls Green | #E8E08E | 232 | 224 | 142 | 55° | 66% | 73% | (Earls Green Light (Xona.com color list)) | |
| Earls Green | #C9B93B | 201 | 185 | 59 | 53° | 57% | 51% | (Xona.com color list) | |
| Light Olivetone | #B8B654 | 184 | 182 | 84 | 59° | 41% | 53% | (Olivetone Light (Xona.com color list)) | |
| Olivine | #9AB973 | 154 | 185 | 115 | 87° | 33% | 59% | (PerBang.dk) (Maerz and Paul) | |
| Camouflage Green | #78866B | 120 | 134 | 107 | 91° | 11% | 47% | (PerBang.dk) | |
| Olive Drab (web color) | #6B8E23 | 107 | 142 | 35 | 80° | 60% | 35% | ||
| Olive | #808000 | 128 | 128 | 0 | 60° | 100% | 25% | (web color) | |
| Olivetone | #716E10 | 113 | 110 | 16 | 58° | 75% | 25% | (Xona.com color list) | |
| Dark Olive Green | #556B2F | 85 | 107 | 47 | 82° | 39% | 30% | (web color) | |
| Black Olive | #3B3C36 | 59 | 60 | 54 | 70° | 5% | 22% | (Olive RAL 6015) |
Olive (color) Media
Olivine*Locality: Sapat Gali (Soppat; Suppat; Sumpat), Manshera, Naran-Kagan Valley, Kohistan District, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan (Locality at mindat.org)*Size: miniature, 3.5
An example of black olives
An olive drab M-1943 field jacket, worn by US soldiers during World War II and the Korean War.
Olive drab is the uniform color of the Israel Army.
Cuban soldiers in olive drab.
An M1 helmet, the standard helmet of the U.S. Army from 1941 through the Vietnam War. This helmet is from the Vietnam War; the color is olive green 107.
