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Pictured: Heart Gold
rgb(128, 128, 0)
#808000

Heart Gold #808000 RGB Color Code

Also known as Olive

CSS keyword olive.

Heart Gold (#808000) is a moderately saturated, medium yellow. In RGB it is made of 50% red, 50% green and 0% blue (R 128, G 128, B 0). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 60°, 100% saturation and 25% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.200, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 0% magenta, 100% yellow and 50% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Heart Gold color codes

#808000 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #808000 Valid CSS
CSS name olive Valid CSS
RGB rgb(128, 128, 0) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(60, 100%, 25%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(60, 100%, 50%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(60 0% 50%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 0%, 100%, 50%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(58.07% 0.1266 109.77) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(58.07% -0.0428 0.1191) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(52.15% -9.45 56.02) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(52.15% 56.82 99.57) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.502 0.502 0.1487) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1662 0.2003 0.0299) Valid CSS
Decimal 8421376 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.2003. Nearest web-safe color: #999900.

Mix Heart Gold with other colors

See what #808000 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintHeart Gold and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightHeart Gold and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintHeart Gold and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalHeart Gold blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Heart Gold in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--heart-gold: #808000;
Sass variable$heart-gold: #808000;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-heart-gold: #808000; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'heart-gold': '#808000' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.502, green: 0.502, blue: 0)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.502, green: 0.502, blue: 0, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="heart_gold">#FF808000</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF808000)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #808000 (5.01:1, AA). Here is how #808000 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.20:1 on white
APCA Lc 69
AA LargeTry #7B7B00
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.01:1 on black
APCA Lc -33
AA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Heart Gold

#808000 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#808000 stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Heart Gold

Another name for olive

Heart Gold has the same code as olive, #808000. That is half red and half green with no blue at all. Some online color name lists use Heart Gold as a second name for this code. We could not find where the name started, and no paint chart or standard uses it.

If you want this color in a style sheet, the keyword olive gives you exactly the same shade. It is one of the 16 basic color names from early HTML, listed on our CSS color names page. The Wikipedia article on olive covers its darker relative, olive drab.

Heart Gold in a user interface

A sample app screen with #808000 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #808000 as it is. On the light theme, #808000 is too hard to read as text (4.20:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #7B7B00 there (4.49:1). On the dark theme, #808000 is too hard to read as text (4.23:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #84850C there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Heart Gold

These schemes turn the hue of #808000 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#808000#000080

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#804000this#808000#408000

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#808000#008080#800080

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#808000#004080#400080

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#808000#008000#000080#800080

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#808000#008040#000080#800040

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#666600#B9B900#FFFF0D#FFFF60#FFFFB3

Gradients with Heart Gold

Four CSS gradients made from #808000. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #E4E5D2, #808000);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #808000, #1F1F00);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #804000, #808000, #408000);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #808000, #568256, #008080);

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Shades, tints and tones of Heart Gold

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Heart Gold sits at step 500. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F8FAD8
  2. 100
    EFF1C4
  3. 200
    DEE0A3
  4. 300
    C5C776
  5. 400
    A8A948
  6. 500
    808000
  7. 600
    717100
  8. 700
    595900
  9. 800
    464600
  10. 900
    333300
  11. 950
    1E1F02

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #808000 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1027 Curry#A77F0E, close (ΔE 6.5)Tailwind CSSlime-700 #4D7C0F, close (ΔE 7.1)CSS color namesolive #808000, exact match (ΔE 0.0)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of yellow or search the color library.