Wheat

#dfd09c

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

Wheat is a light yellow, soft at this saturation. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Wheat color values

Every conversion for #dfd09c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dfd09c

RGB223, 208, 156

HSL47, 51%, 74%

HSV47, 30%, 87%

CMYK0%, 7%, 30%, 13%

Lab83.55, -2.59, 27.75

XYZ58.99, 63.2, 40.54

Decimal14667932

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone4535 C

Shades of wheat

#d6c482 #ceb767 #c5ab4d #b59a3b #9b8332 #806d2a #665721 #4c4018 #312a10 #171407

Tints of wheat

#e2d4a5 #e5d8ad #e7dcb6 #eae0be #ede4c7 #f0e8cf #f2ecd8 #f5f0e0 #f8f5e9 #fbf9f2

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#9cabdf Analogous#dfae9c Analogous#cddf9c Triadic#9cdfd0 Triadic#d09cdf Split complementary#9ccddf Split complementary#ae9cdf

Wheat in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 7, 30, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dfd09c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 7 30 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 10 32 19

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 #dfd09c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dfd09c; }
.text { color: #dfd09c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dfd09c; }

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 #dfd09c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dfd09c 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 #dfd09c 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 #dfd09c 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 #dfd09c 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.