Wheat

#ecd2ae

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

Wheat sits in the orange range, light and strong. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Wheat color values

Every conversion for #ecd2ae, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ecd2ae

RGB236, 210, 174

HSL35, 62%, 80%

HSV35, 26%, 93%

CMYK0%, 11%, 26%, 7%

Lab85.49, 3.67, 21.17

XYZ65.28, 66.98, 49.53

Decimal15520430

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone726 C

Shades of wheat

#e5c18f #deb071 #d69f52 #cf8e33 #b2792a #946423 #754f1b #563b14 #38260d #191106

Tints of wheat

#efd9bb #f2e1c9 #f5e8d6 #f8f0e3 #faf3ea #fcf7f1

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#aec8ec Analogous#ecb3ae Analogous#e7ecae Triadic#aeecd2 Triadic#d2aeec Split complementary#aee7ec Split complementary#b3aeec

Wheat in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 11, 26, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ecd2ae on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 11 26 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 14 28 13

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 #ecd2ae straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ecd2ae; }
.text { color: #ecd2ae; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ecd2ae; }

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 #ecd2ae against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ecd2ae 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 #ecd2ae 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 #ecd2ae 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

The figures for #ecd2ae come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.