Wheat

#f4e4bd

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 43 degrees. 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 #f4e4bd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f4e4bd

RGB244, 228, 189

HSL43, 71%, 85%

HSV43, 23%, 96%

CMYK0%, 7%, 23%, 4%

Lab90.96, -0.57, 21.03

XYZ74.24, 78.39, 59.36

Decimal16049341

Web safe#ffcccc

Pantone4545 C

Shades of wheat

#eed69b #e9c878 #e3ba56 #ddac33 #c79721 #a47c1b #826216 #5f4810 #3d2e0a #1a1404

Tints of wheat

#f5e6c2 #f6e8c7 #f7eacc #f7ecd1 #f8eed6 #f9f0db #faf3e0 #fbf5e6 #fcf7eb #fcf9f0

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#bdcdf4 Analogous#f4c9bd Analogous#e9f4bd Triadic#bdf4e4 Triadic#e4bdf4 Split complementary#bde9f4 Split complementary#c8bdf4

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, 7, 23, 4.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f4e4bd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 7 23 4

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 10 25 10

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 #f4e4bd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f4e4bd; }
.text { color: #f4e4bd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f4e4bd; }

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 #f4e4bd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f4e4bd 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 #f4e4bd 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 #f4e4bd 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

Every value on this page for #f4e4bd is computed, not guessed. 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.