Olive (color)

Olive

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#808000
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(128, 128, 0)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 0, 100, 50)
HSV (h, s, v)	(60°, 100%, 50%)
Source	X11 color names
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Olivine

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#9AB973
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(154, 185, 115)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(17, 0, 38, 27)
HSV (h, s, v)	(87°, 38%, 73%)
Source	[1]/Maerz & Paul
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Olive Drab

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#6B8E23
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(107, 142, 35)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(25, 0, 75, 44)
HSV (h, s, v)	(80°, 75%, 56%)
Source	X11 color names
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Olive drab camouflage

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#544F3D
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(84, 79, 61)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(60, 60, 100, 50)
HSV (h, s, v)	(47°, 27.4%, 32.9%)
Source	Federal Standard 595 33070
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Olive Drab #7

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#3C341F
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(60, 52, 31)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 13, 48, 76)
HSV (h, s, v)	(43.4°, 48.3%, 23.5%)
Source	HexColorPedia
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Dark Olive Green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#556B2F
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(85, 107, 47)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(20, 0, 56, 58)
HSV (h, s, v)	(82°, 56%, 42%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Olive (RAL)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#3B3C36
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(59, 60, 54)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(2, 9, 10, 77)
HSV (h, s, v)	(70°, 10%, 24%)
Source	RAL
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Olive is a dark yellowish-green color, like that of unripe or green olives.

As a color word in the English language, it appears in late Middle English. Shaded toward gray, it becomes olive drab.

Olivine is the typical color of the mineral olivine.

The first recorded use of Olivine as a color name in English was in 1912.

Olive drab is variously described as a "dull olive-green colour" (Oxford English Dictionary); "a shade of greenish-brown" (Webster's New World Dictionary); "a dark gray-green" (MacMillan English dictionary); "a grayish olive to dark olive brown or olive gray (American Heritage Dictionary); or "A dull but fairly strong gray-green color" (Collins English Dictionary). It was widely used as a camouflage color for uniforms and equipment in the armed forces, particularly by the U.S. Army during the Second World War.

The first recorded use of olive drab as a color name in English was in 1892.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.

Olive drab was the color of the standard fighting uniform for U.S. GIs and military vehicles during World War II. U.S. soldiers often referred to their uniforms as "OD's" due to the color. The color used at the beginning of the war by the U.S. Army was officially called Olive Drab #3, which was replaced by Olive Drab #7 (hex code #3C341F) by 1944, and which was again replaced by Olive Green 107 or OG-107 in 1952, and continued as the official uniform color for combat fatigues through the Vietnam War, until replaced by M81 woodland camo fatigues as the primary U.S. uniform pattern (based on the ERDL pattern used by some soldiers in Vietnam) in the 1981, which retained olive drab as one of the color swatches in the pattern.

As a solid color, it is not as effective for camouflage as multiple-color camo schemes (e.g., U.S. Army Combat Uniform, Tigerstripe, MARPAT, Multicam etc.), though it is still used by the U.S. military to color webbing and accessories. The armies of Israel, India, Cuba, Venezuela, and Austria wear solid color olive drab uniforms.

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