Wheat

#e2cd99

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

Wheat sits in the orange range, light and strong. 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 #e2cd99, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e2cd99

RGB226, 205, 153

HSL43, 56%, 74%

HSV43, 32%, 89%

CMYK0%, 9%, 32%, 11%

Lab82.98, -0.26, 28.6

XYZ58.95, 62.13, 39.02

Decimal14863769

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone467 C

Shades of wheat

#dac07e #d3b263 #cba548 #bb9435 #9f7f2d #846926 #69541e #4e3e16 #33280e #181307

Tints of wheat

#e5d1a2 #e7d6ab #ecdebc #efe3c5 #f1e7ce #f4ebd7 #f6f0df #f9f4e8 #fbf8f1

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#99aee2 Analogous#e2a999 Analogous#d2e299 Triadic#99e2cd Triadic#cd99e2 Split complementary#99d2e2 Split complementary#a999e2

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, 9, 32, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e2cd99 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 9 32 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 12 33 17

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 #e2cd99 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e2cd99; }
.text { color: #e2cd99; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e2cd99; }

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 #e2cd99 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e2cd99 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 #e2cd99 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 #e2cd99 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

Every value on this page for #e2cd99 is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.