Wheat

#ecd8a8

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. Teals and blues on the opposite side of the wheel give it contrast and warm browns keep it earthy.

Wheat color values

Every conversion for #ecd8a8, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ecd8a8

RGB236, 216, 168

HSL42, 64%, 79%

HSV42, 29%, 93%

CMYK0%, 8%, 29%, 7%

Lab86.88, -0.22, 26.21

XYZ66.22, 69.77, 47.02

Decimal15521960

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone155 C

Shades of wheat

#e5ca89 #dfbd6b #d8af4c #d1a12e #b28927 #947220 #755a1a #564313 #382b0c #191305

Tints of wheat

#efdeb6 #f2e5c5 #f5ebd3 #f7efdb #f9f2e2 #faf5e9 #fcf8f0

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#a8bcec Analogous#ecb6a8 Analogous#deeca8 Triadic#a8ecd8 Triadic#d8a8ec Split complementary#a8deec Split complementary#b6a8ec

Wheat in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 8, 29, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ecd8a8 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 8 29 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 11 31 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 #ecd8a8 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ecd8a8; }
.text { color: #ecd8a8; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ecd8a8; }

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 #ecd8a8 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ecd8a8 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 #ecd8a8 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 #ecd8a8 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 #ecd8a8 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.