Ancient Olive Color

#6a5536

Ancient Olive is pale, warm-toned shade of orange. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with blue cyan, mid magenta or green cyan

Inverse Color #95aac9
Complementary Color #354a6a
Color Shade: orange (35.77° hue)
Color Temperature: warm
Lightness: 31.37% (better contrasting with white)
Ancient Olive Color Sample
Ancient Olive Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #6a5536

If you're looking for a similar orange shade, there are some better alternatives to Ancient Olive Color. The Texas Boots color for instance is a lighter and a bit more faded option, however this color has a warm red bias. Consider a lighter and more soft alternative called Muskrat (#7e6f4f) for more calm effect. Try Castle Moat as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#354a6a is the best complementary color to Ancient Olive. Blue cyan shades generally complement the orange hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #6a5536 complementary color is San Juan, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of mid red, orange, and mid yellow colors offers a soft combination of similar warm shades. The analogous colors of Shingle Fawn are #6a3a35 and #656a35. Thus found on the left and right of #6a5536 on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Buccaneer and Costa Del Sol colors as they work well with Ancient Olive.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Ancient Olive palette consists of #3a356a and #35646a colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#354a6a). Try Rhino and William colors in combination with #6a5536, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #6a5536 offers a combination of violet and green cyan shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Ancient Olive. Thus Bossanova and Stromboli giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Ancient Olive contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary San Juan, Killarney, and Cosmic split by 90° on the color wheel. #6a5536 square combo is a palette of orange, mid green, blue cyan and mid magenta shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Ancient Olive tetradic combo consists of blue cyan complementary color (#354a6a) and two others. The Stromboli is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Cosmic – 120° from the complementary San Juan. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #356a55 and #6a354a.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #6a5536 is made of 43% red, 35% green and 22% blue. In a HSL mode Ancient Olive has a hue angle of 35.77°, a saturation of 32.5% and a lightness of 31.37%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #6a5536 is made of 0% cyan, 8.24% magenta, 20.39% yellow and 58.43% black ink.

HEX #6a5536
RGB Decimal rgb(106,85,54)
RGB Percentage 43%, 35%, 22%
CMYK 0, 8.24, 20.39, 58.43
HSL hsl(35.77,32.5%,31.37%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(35.77,49.06%,41.57%)
CIE-LAB lab(37.5311,4.1844,21.3142)
XYZ xyz(9.8582,9.8275,4.8673)
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