Wheat

#d5caa4

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for wheat, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

This is Wheat, a soft yellow at 47 degrees. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Wheat color values

Every conversion for #d5caa4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#d5caa4

RGB213, 202, 164

HSL47, 37%, 74%

HSV47, 23%, 84%

CMYK0%, 5%, 23%, 16%

Lab81.33, -2.2, 20.38

XYZ55.26, 59.07, 43.61

Decimal14011044

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone4535 C

Shades of wheat

#cabc8c #bfae75 #b4a15d #a38f4b #8b7b40 #746635 #5c512a #443c20 #2d2715 #15120a

Tints of wheat

#d9cfac #dcd3b4 #e0d8bc #e4dcc4 #ebe6d3 #eeeadb #f2efe3 #f6f3eb #f9f8f3

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#a4afd5 Analogous#d5b2a4 Analogous#c7d5a4 Triadic#a4d5ca Triadic#caa4d5 Split complementary#a4c7d5 Split complementary#b2a4d5

Wheat in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 5, 23, 16.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #d5caa4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 5 23 16

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 9 25 22

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Wheat in css

Copy #d5caa4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #d5caa4; }
.text { color: #d5caa4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #d5caa4; }

How wheat looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Wheat and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #d5caa4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #d5caa4 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Wheat on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #d5caa4 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around wheat? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn wheat into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #d5caa4 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from wheat, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #d5caa4 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.