Wheat

#e7dcbc

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. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Wheat color values

Every conversion for #e7dcbc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e7dcbc

RGB231, 220, 188

HSL45, 47%, 82%

HSV45, 19%, 91%

CMYK0%, 5%, 19%, 9%

Lab87.88, -1.37, 17.09

XYZ67.63, 71.81, 57.87

Decimal15195324

Web safe#ffcccc

Pantone4545 C

Shades of wheat

#ddcd9f #d3be83 #c8af66 #bea04a #a68a3b #897231 #6c5b27 #50431d #332b12 #171308

Tints of wheat

#ebe2c7 #efe7d2 #f3eddc #f6f3e7 #faf8f2

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#bcc7e7 Analogous#e7c7bc Analogous#dce7bc Triadic#bce7dc Triadic#dcbce7 Split complementary#bcdce7 Split complementary#c7bce7

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, 5, 19, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e7dcbc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 5 19 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 9 21 15

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 #e7dcbc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e7dcbc; }
.text { color: #e7dcbc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e7dcbc; }

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 #e7dcbc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e7dcbc 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 #e7dcbc 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 #e7dcbc 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 #e7dcbc are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.