Olive green on cool, light skin tones (Light Summer)

The answer

No. Olive green sits well outside the Light Summer palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #8E9299, ΔE 27.8 away, which is one of the four neutrals the season is built on. Under 12 reads as the same colour family; past 25 the two are visibly different colours.

There is a second problem. Olive green lands within ΔE 7.0 of #556B2F, which is on the short list of colours that actively work against Light Summer colouring. That is the failure people can see and cannot name.

How olive green scores across all twelve seasons

Olive green is an opinionated colour: True Autumn scores it 87 and Light Summer scores it 12. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.

Light Summer sits 12 of twelve at 12, 74 points behind True Autumn. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.

• True Autumn: 87 (ΔE 5.4).
• Deep Autumn: 80 (ΔE 8.1).
• Soft Autumn: 68 (ΔE 12.7).
• Light Summer: 12 (ΔE 27.8) <- this season.

What to wear instead

Nearest first. These are the colours in the Light Summer palette that get closest to what you wanted from olive green, so the substitution costs the least.

• #8E9299: mid-tone, a grey (ΔE 4.7).
• #AAC8B8: light, nearest common name grey (ΔE 17.8).
• #A0CCC0: light, nearest common name sky blue (ΔE 18.3).