Wheat

#edd490

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

Wheat is a light orange with open warmth. 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 #edd490, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#edd490

RGB237, 212, 144

HSL44, 72%, 75%

HSV44, 39%, 93%

CMYK0%, 11%, 39%, 7%

Lab85.56, -0.64, 36.81

XYZ63.5, 67.11, 35.99

Decimal15586448

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone1215 C

Shades of wheat

#e8c872 #e3bd54 #deb136 #cfa122 #b1891d #937218 #755a13 #57430e #382c09 #1a1404

Tints of wheat

#efd89a #f0dba3 #f2dfad #f3e3b6 #f5e7c0 #f6eac9 #f8eed3 #f9f2dd #fbf5e6 #fdf9f0

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#90a9ed Analogous#eda690 Analogous#d7ed90 Triadic#90edd4 Triadic#d490ed Split complementary#90d7ed Split complementary#a590ed

Wheat in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 11, 39, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #edd490 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 11 39 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 14 40 13

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #edd490 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #edd490; }
.text { color: #edd490; }
.border { border: 2px solid #edd490; }

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 #edd490 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #edd490 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 #edd490 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 #edd490 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 #edd490 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.