Olive
color code: # 808000
color code: # 556B2F
color code: # 6B8E23
The color olive names a strongly darkened green or yellow-green.
etymology
The color name "olive" is related to the color of the green olive .
Color theory
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Colorimetrically , a body color is perceived as olive if it has been mixed by complementary color components. The tinting of yellow with violet, but also the combination of green and orange leads to olive shades. Olive is a cloudy color and is therefore called a tertiary color .
The color group of olive tones includes color tones whose relative brightness is below 50%. The saturation in the HSV color space is also below 50%. Olive is defined separately for the web colors and belongs to the green tones in the RAL color system . The RAL 6003 olive green still shows color, the RAL 6006 olive gray is only greenish . RAL 6015 is named as black olive and RAL 6014 as yellow olive, the latter was used by the Bundeswehr as a camouflage color for vehicles and equipment until 1984.
In practice, olive nuances can be achieved by subtractive color mixing with different colorants - as long as the proportion of cold colors predominates.
NATO olive
The textile color , which is commonly used as “NATO-olive” or “NATO-green” and officially designated by the Bundeswehr as “stone gray -olive”, is similar to RAL color 7013 with the RAL designation “brown gray”. The Moleskin combat suit was dyed in this color until 2000 . This color is still used for parts of clothing (lining of clothing, rank loops), bags and for vehicles (commercially available vehicles with olive foil).
See also
Web links
- Bruce MacEvoy: Color vision. Color temperature. Unsaturated color zones . In: Handprint. Watercolors .
- named olive tones
- Web color: olive (olive green) - # 808000
