Wheat

#fae7b9

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

Wheat is a light orange with soft 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 #fae7b9, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#fae7b9

RGB250, 231, 185

HSL42, 87%, 85%

HSV42, 26%, 98%

CMYK0%, 8%, 26%, 2%

Lab92.12, -0.43, 24.77

XYZ76.76, 80.98, 57.48

Decimal16443321

Web safe#ffffcc

Pantone155 C

Shades of wheat

#f7da93 #f5cd6e #f2c048 #efb322 #d99e10 #b4830d #8e670a #684c07 #423005 #1d1502

Tints of wheat

#fbebc4 #fceece #fcf2d9 #fdf6e4 #fdf7e9

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#b9ccfa Analogous#fac6b9 Analogous#edfab9 Triadic#b9fae7 Triadic#e7b9fa Split complementary#b9edfa Split complementary#c6b9fa

Wheat in print

A color this vivid sometimes sits just outside cmyk gamut, so expect a small dip in punch on paper. The cmyk build is 0, 8, 26, 2.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #fae7b9 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 8 26 2

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 11 28 8

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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Wheat in css

Copy #fae7b9 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #fae7b9; }
.text { color: #fae7b9; }
.border { border: 2px solid #fae7b9; }

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 #fae7b9 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #fae7b9 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 #fae7b9 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 #fae7b9 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 #fae7b9 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.