Wheat

#efd7ae

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 38 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 #efd7ae, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#efd7ae

RGB239, 215, 174

HSL38, 67%, 81%

HSV38, 27%, 94%

CMYK0%, 10%, 27%, 6%

Lab87.0, 2.21, 23.29

XYZ67.54, 70.01, 50.0

Decimal15718318

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone155 C

Shades of wheat

#e9c78e #e2b76e #dca84e #d6982e #b98225 #996c1e #795518 #593f12 #39280b #1a1205

Tints of wheat

#f2debb #f4e4c8 #f7ebd6 #f9f1e3 #fcf8f0

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#aec6ef Analogous#efb7ae Analogous#e7efae Triadic#aeefd7 Triadic#d7aeef Split complementary#aee7ef Split complementary#b6aeef

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, 10, 27, 6.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #efd7ae on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 10 27 6

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 13 29 12

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 #efd7ae straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #efd7ae; }
.text { color: #efd7ae; }
.border { border: 2px solid #efd7ae; }

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 #efd7ae against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #efd7ae 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 #efd7ae 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 #efd7ae 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 #efd7ae are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.