Wheat

#eadaa4

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 strong. 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 #eadaa4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#eadaa4

RGB234, 218, 164

HSL46, 62%, 78%

HSV46, 30%, 92%

CMYK0%, 7%, 30%, 8%

Lab87.15, -2.52, 28.62

XYZ65.7, 70.32, 45.23

Decimal15391396

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone615 C

Shades of wheat

#e3ce86 #dcc268 #d5b64a #cca82f #ae9028 #907721 #725e1a #554614 #372d0d #191406

Tints of wheat

#ecddac #eee0b3 #efe3bb #f1e6c3 #f3eaca #f5edd2 #f6f0da #f8f3e1 #faf6e9 #fcf9f0

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#a4b4ea Analogous#eab7a4 Analogous#d7eaa4 Triadic#a4eada Triadic#daa4ea Split complementary#a4d7ea Split complementary#b7a4ea

Wheat in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 7, 30, 8.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #eadaa4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 7 30 8

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 10 32 14

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 #eadaa4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #eadaa4; }
.text { color: #eadaa4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #eadaa4; }

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 #eadaa4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #eadaa4 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 #eadaa4 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 #eadaa4 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 #eadaa4 are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.