Wheat

#fde7bf

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 #fde7bf, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#fde7bf

RGB253, 231, 191

HSL39, 94%, 87%

HSV39, 25%, 99%

CMYK0%, 9%, 25%, 1%

Lab92.48, 1.49, 22.22

XYZ78.49, 81.8, 60.94

Decimal16639935

Web safe#ffffcc

Pantone155 C

Shades of wheat

#fcd897 #fac96f #f9ba47 #f8ab1f #e69707 #be7d06 #966205 #6e4803 #462e02 #1e1301

Tints of wheat

#fdebc8 #feeed2 #fef2db #fef5e4 #fef9ee

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#bfd5fd Analogous#fdc8bf Analogous#f4fdbf Triadic#bffde7 Triadic#e7bffd Split complementary#bff4fd Split complementary#c8bffd

Wheat in print

It is saturated enough that the cmyk build can shift slightly from screen to press, so proof it. The cmyk build is 0, 9, 25, 1.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #fde7bf on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 9 25 1

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 12 27 7

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 #fde7bf straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #fde7bf; }
.text { color: #fde7bf; }
.border { border: 2px solid #fde7bf; }

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 #fde7bf against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #fde7bf 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 #fde7bf 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 #fde7bf 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 #fde7bf are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.