Wheat

#decea8

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. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Wheat color values

Every conversion for #decea8, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#decea8

RGB222, 206, 168

HSL42, 45%, 76%

HSV42, 24%, 87%

CMYK0%, 7%, 24%, 13%

Lab83.18, -0.34, 20.94

XYZ59.26, 62.5, 45.99

Decimal14601896

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone467 C

Shades of wheat

#d4bf8e #cab174 #c0a25a #b39244 #987c3a #7e6730 #645226 #4a3d1c #302712 #161208

Tints of wheat

#e4d6b7 #e6dbbe #e9dfc6 #efe7d4 #f2ebdc #f4efe3 #f7f4eb #faf8f2

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#a8b8de Analogous#deb3a8 Analogous#d3dea8 Triadic#a8dece Triadic#cea8de Split complementary#a8d3de Split complementary#b3a8de

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, 7, 24, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #decea8 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 7 24 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 10 26 19

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 #decea8 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #decea8; }
.text { color: #decea8; }
.border { border: 2px solid #decea8; }

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 #decea8 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #decea8 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 #decea8 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 #decea8 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 #decea8 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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. The Pantone value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.