Olive (color)

The color Olive refers to a strong darkened green or blue green.

Etymology

The olive color name is related with the hue of green olive.

Color theory

As an olive body color is colorimetrically detected when it was created by tinting a cold color ( green, blue) with black. Olive is a cloudy color.

The color group includes shades of olive tones whose relative magnitudes are below 50%. Saturation in the HSV color space is also below 50%. It is defined in the web colors and belongs to the RAL color system to the greens. The RAL 6003 olive green still shows variegation, the olive gray RAL 6006 is just greenish. Named are RAL 6015 and RAL 6014 black olive as Gelboliv, the latter was used in the army until 1984 as a camouflage for vehicles and equipment.

In practice, Olive can be achieved by subtractive color mixing with different colorants in its nuances - as long as the proportion of cold colors predominates, tertiary colors with predominantly warm color component lead to brown.

NATO -olive

The popularly known officially by the army " steingrauoliv " described as a " NATO -olive " and as a textile color similar to RAL 7013 with the RAL - called " brown -gray" in this color until 2000, the Moleskin combat suit was held, today it is still used for feedings, grade loops and pockets used.