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Olive drab

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Olive Drab
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#6B8E23
sRGBB (r, g, b)(107, 142, 35)
HSV (h, s, v)(80°, 75%, 56%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(55, 60, 107°)
Source[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Olive Drab is the color olive shaded green.

Olive Drab was the color of the standard fighting uniform for U.S. GIs and tanks during World War II. U.S. soldiers often referred to their uniforms as "OD's" due to the color. There are very few countries, if any, that still issue Olive Drab uniforms.

As a solid color, it is not as effective for camouflage as multiple-color camo schemes(i.e. US Army Combat Uniform, tigerstripe, MARPAT, Multicam, etc.)

Olive Drab (shade 2)
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#628318
sRGBB (r, g, b)(98, 131, 24)
HSV (h, s, v)(79°, 82%, 51%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(51, 57, 107°)
Source[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

See also: List of colors