Wheat

#e8ce8a

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

Wheat sits in the orange range, light and strong. 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 #e8ce8a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e8ce8a

RGB232, 206, 138

HSL43, 67%, 73%

HSV43, 41%, 91%

CMYK0%, 11%, 41%, 9%

Lab83.51, -0.16, 37.13

XYZ59.94, 63.13, 33.07

Decimal15257226

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone1215 C

Shades of wheat

#e2c26e #ddb651 #d7aa35 #c49826 #a78221 #8b6c1b #6f5616 #524010 #362a0b #1a1405

Tints of wheat

#ead294 #ecd79e #eedba9 #f0dfb3 #f2e3bd #f4e8c7 #f6ecd1 #f8f0dc #faf4e6 #fcf9f0

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#8aa4e8 Analogous#e89f8a Analogous#d3e88a Triadic#8ae8ce Triadic#ce8ae8 Split complementary#8ad3e8 Split complementary#9f8ae8

Wheat in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 11, 41, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e8ce8a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 11 41 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 14 42 15

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 #e8ce8a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e8ce8a; }
.text { color: #e8ce8a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e8ce8a; }

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 #e8ce8a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e8ce8a 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 #e8ce8a 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 #e8ce8a 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 #e8ce8a is computed, not guessed. 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.