Wheat

#dbd3af

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 49 degrees. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Wheat color values

Every conversion for #dbd3af, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dbd3af

RGB219, 211, 175

HSL49, 38%, 77%

HSV49, 20%, 86%

CMYK0%, 4%, 20%, 14%

Lab84.35, -3.05, 18.84

XYZ60.25, 64.74, 49.88

Decimal14406575

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone5875 C

Shades of wheat

#d0c596 #c4b77d #b9aa64 #ab9a4d #928442 #796d37 #60572b #474020 #2e2a15 #151309

Tints of wheat

#e1dabd #e7e2ca #ede9d8 #f3f1e5 #f6f5ec #f9f8f3

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#afb7db Analogous#dbbdaf Analogous#cddbaf Triadic#afdbd3 Triadic#d3afdb Split complementary#afcddb Split complementary#bdafdb

Wheat in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 4, 20, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dbd3af on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 4 20 14

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 8 22 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 #dbd3af straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dbd3af; }
.text { color: #dbd3af; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dbd3af; }

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 #dbd3af against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dbd3af 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 #dbd3af 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 #dbd3af 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 #dbd3af are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.