Wheat

#ebdeb5

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

Wheat is a light yellow, open at this saturation. 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 #ebdeb5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ebdeb5

RGB235, 222, 181

HSL46, 57%, 82%

HSV46, 23%, 92%

CMYK0%, 6%, 23%, 8%

Lab88.56, -1.93, 21.75

XYZ68.72, 73.24, 54.23

Decimal15457973

Web safe#ffcccc

Pantone614 C

Shades of wheat

#e3d097 #dbc378 #d2b55a #caa83c #b09130 #917827 #735f1f #554617 #362d0f #181407

Tints of wheat

#eee3c1 #f1e9cd #f5eed9 #f8f3e5 #fbf9f1

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#b5c2eb Analogous#ebc3b5 Analogous#ddebb5 Triadic#b5ebde Triadic#deb5eb Split complementary#b5ddeb Split complementary#c3b5eb

Wheat in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 6, 23, 8.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ebdeb5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 6 23 8

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 10 25 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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Wheat in css

Copy #ebdeb5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ebdeb5; }
.text { color: #ebdeb5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ebdeb5; }

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 #ebdeb5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ebdeb5 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 #ebdeb5 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 #ebdeb5 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 #ebdeb5 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.