Wheat

#ded2ae

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

Wheat is a light yellow, soft at this saturation. 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 #ded2ae, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ded2ae

RGB222, 210, 174

HSL45, 42%, 78%

HSV45, 22%, 87%

CMYK0%, 5%, 22%, 13%

Lab84.32, -1.56, 19.36

XYZ60.81, 64.68, 49.32

Decimal14602926

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone468 C

Shades of wheat

#d3c494 #c9b57a #bea760 #b29748 #98813e #7e6b33 #645529 #4a3f1e #302913 #161309

Tints of wheat

#e4dabc #e9e1c9 #efe9d7 #f1edde #f4f0e5 #faf8f2

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#aebade Analogous#debaae Analogous#d2deae Triadic#aeded2 Triadic#d2aede Split complementary#aed2de Split complementary#baaede

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, 22, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ded2ae on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 5 22 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 9 24 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 #ded2ae straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ded2ae; }
.text { color: #ded2ae; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ded2ae; }

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 #ded2ae against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ded2ae 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 #ded2ae 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 #ded2ae 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 #ded2ae are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.