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.
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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Green sand is actually crystalline olivine which has been eroded from lava rocks
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Olivine crystals
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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 US soldiers during World War II.
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Olive drab is the uniform color of the Israel Army.
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Cuban soldiers in olive drab.
See also
In Spanish: Verde oliva para niños
