Wheat

#ecd79f

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

This is Wheat, a strong orange at 44 degrees. 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 #ecd79f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ecd79f

RGB236, 215, 159

HSL44, 67%, 77%

HSV44, 33%, 93%

CMYK0%, 9%, 33%, 7%

Lab86.47, -0.84, 30.32

XYZ65.15, 68.94, 42.67

Decimal15521695

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone155 C

Shades of wheat

#e6ca81 #e0be62 #dab144 #d0a329 #b28b23 #93731d #755b17 #564311 #382c0b #1a1405

Tints of wheat

#eedaa7 #efdeaf #f1e1b7 #f2e5bf #f4e8c8 #f6ebd0 #f7efd8 #f9f2e0 #faf5e8 #fcf9f0

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#9fb4ec Analogous#ecb19f Analogous#dbec9f Triadic#9fecd7 Triadic#d79fec Split complementary#9fdbec Split complementary#b19fec

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, 9, 33, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ecd79f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 9 33 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 12 34 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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Wheat in css

Copy #ecd79f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ecd79f; }
.text { color: #ecd79f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ecd79f; }

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 #ecd79f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ecd79f 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 #ecd79f 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 #ecd79f 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 #ecd79f are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.