Wheat

#e4daae

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

This is Wheat, a soft yellow at 49 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 #e4daae, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e4daae

RGB228, 218, 174

HSL49, 50%, 79%

HSV49, 24%, 89%

CMYK0%, 4%, 24%, 11%

Lab86.85, -3.45, 22.93

XYZ64.71, 69.69, 50.09

Decimal14998190

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone615 C

Shades of wheat

#dbcd92 #d1c176 #c8b45a #bea73f #a28e36 #86762d #6b5d24 #4f451a #332d11 #171408

Tints of wheat

#e9e0bc #ede6c9 #f2edd7 #f6f3e4 #f8f6eb #fbf9f2

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#aeb8e4 Analogous#e4bfae Analogous#d3e4ae Triadic#aee4da Triadic#daaee4 Split complementary#aed3e4 Split complementary#bfaee4

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, 24, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e4daae on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 4 24 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 8 26 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 #e4daae straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e4daae; }
.text { color: #e4daae; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e4daae; }

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 #e4daae against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e4daae 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 #e4daae 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 #e4daae 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 #e4daae are worked out. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.