Wheat

#dfcb8e

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

This is Wheat, a strong yellow at 45 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 #dfcb8e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dfcb8e

RGB223, 203, 142

HSL45, 56%, 72%

HSV45, 36%, 87%

CMYK0%, 9%, 36%, 13%

Lab82.03, -1.71, 32.99

XYZ56.67, 60.35, 34.25

Decimal14666638

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone466 C

Shades of wheat

#d8bf74 #d0b35a #c9a740 #b49433 #9a7f2c #806924 #66541d #4c3f16 #32290e #181407

Tints of wheat

#e2d098 #e5d4a2 #e7d9ac #eaddb6 #ede2c0 #f0e6c9 #f3ebd3 #f5efdd #f8f4e7 #fbf9f1

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#8ea2df Analogous#dfa28e Analogous#cbdf8e Triadic#8edfcb Triadic#cb8edf Split complementary#8ecadf Split complementary#a38edf

Wheat in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 9, 36, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dfcb8e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 9 36 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 12 37 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 #dfcb8e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dfcb8e; }
.text { color: #dfcb8e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dfcb8e; }

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 #dfcb8e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dfcb8e 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 #dfcb8e 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 #dfcb8e 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 #dfcb8e come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.