Wheat

#dbcaac

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

Wheat is a light orange with soft warmth. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. Teals and blues on the opposite side of the wheel give it contrast and warm browns keep it earthy.

Wheat color values

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

Hex#dbcaac

RGB219, 202, 172

HSL38, 39%, 77%

HSV38, 21%, 86%

CMYK0%, 8%, 21%, 14%

Lab81.99, 1.19, 17.14

XYZ57.78, 60.28, 47.62

Decimal14404268

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone467 C

Shades of wheat

#d0ba93 #c5aa7a #ba9a61 #ac894b #937540 #7a6135 #614d2a #48391f #2e2514 #151109

Tints of wheat

#e1d3ba #e7dcc8 #ede5d6 #f3eee4 #faf7f3

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#acbddb Analogous#dbb3ac Analogous#d4dbac Triadic#acdbca Triadic#caacdb Split complementary#acd4db Split complementary#b3acdb

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, 8, 21, 14.

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

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 8 21 14

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 11 23 20

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 #dbcaac straight into your stylesheet.

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

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 #dbcaac against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dbcaac 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 #dbcaac 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 #dbcaac 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

The figures for #dbcaac come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.