Wheat

#dfd6b4

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

Wheat falls in the yellow band, light and soft. 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 #dfd6b4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dfd6b4

RGB223, 214, 180

HSL47, 40%, 79%

HSV47, 19%, 87%

CMYK0%, 4%, 19%, 13%

Lab85.54, -2.39, 17.92

XYZ62.72, 67.08, 52.82

Decimal14669492

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone4545 C

Shades of wheat

#d4c89a #c9b980 #beab66 #b29d4c #988641 #7e6f36 #64582b #4a411f #302a14 #151309

Tints of wheat

#e2d9ba #e4ddc0 #e7e0c7 #eae4cd #ece7d3 #efead9 #f2eee0 #f4f1e6 #f7f5ec #faf8f2

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#b4bddf Analogous#dfc1b4 Analogous#d3dfb4 Triadic#b4dfd6 Triadic#d6b4df Split complementary#b4d3df Split complementary#c1b4df

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, 4, 19, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dfd6b4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 4 19 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 8 21 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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Wheat in css

Copy #dfd6b4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dfd6b4; }
.text { color: #dfd6b4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dfd6b4; }

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 #dfd6b4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dfd6b4 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Wheat on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #dfd6b4 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn wheat into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #dfd6b4 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 #dfd6b4 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.