Wheat

#e5dcba

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 47 degrees. 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 #e5dcba, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e5dcba

RGB229, 220, 186

HSL47, 45%, 81%

HSV47, 19%, 90%

CMYK0%, 4%, 19%, 10%

Lab87.67, -2.39, 17.83

XYZ66.77, 71.39, 56.71

Decimal15064250

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone4545 C

Shades of wheat

#dace9e #d0c082 #c5b266 #bba34a #a28d3d #867432 #6a5c28 #4e441d #322c13 #161308

Tints of wheat

#e7dfc0 #e9e2c5 #ebe5cb #ede7d0 #f0ead6 #f2eddc #f4f0e1 #f6f3e7 #f8f6ec #faf8f2

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#bac3e5 Analogous#e5c7ba Analogous#d8e5ba Triadic#bae5dc Triadic#dcbae5 Split complementary#bad8e5 Split complementary#c7bae5

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, 10.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e5dcba on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 4 19 10

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 8 21 16

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 #e5dcba straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e5dcba; }
.text { color: #e5dcba; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e5dcba; }

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 #e5dcba against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e5dcba 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 #e5dcba 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 #e5dcba 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 #e5dcba are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.