Olive (color) facts for kids
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Olive is a kind of muddy green color. In actuality, it is really a shade of dark 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 color of old U.S. Army field uniforms is a shade of olive called olive drab (shown below) that was used because it was hard to see against trees and grass.
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 |
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| 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) |
Related pages
Images for kids
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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.
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An example of black olives
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An olive drab M-1943 field jacket, worn by U.S. soldiers in World War II.
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Olive drab is the uniform color today of the Israel Defense Forces.
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Cuban soldiers in olive drab.
