Wheat

#d5ceb5

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

This is Wheat, a muted yellow at 47 degrees. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Wheat color values

Every conversion for #d5ceb5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#d5ceb5

RGB213, 206, 181

HSL47, 28%, 77%

HSV47, 15%, 84%

CMYK0%, 3%, 15%, 16%

Lab82.71, -1.75, 13.3

XYZ57.85, 61.62, 52.56

Decimal14012085

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone453 C

Shades of wheat

#c8bf9e #bbaf87 #aea06f #9f905a #877b4d #706640 #595133 #423c25 #2b2718 #14120b

Tints of wheat

#d9d2bb #dcd6c2 #e0dac8 #e3dfce #e7e3d4 #eae7db #eeebe1 #f1efe7 #f5f3ed #f9f7f4

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#b5bcd5 Analogous#d5beb5 Analogous#ccd5b5 Triadic#b5d5ce Triadic#ceb5d5 Split complementary#b5ccd5 Split complementary#beb5d5

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, 3, 15, 16.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #d5ceb5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 3 15 16

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 7 18 22

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 #d5ceb5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #d5ceb5; }
.text { color: #d5ceb5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #d5ceb5; }

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 #d5ceb5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #d5ceb5 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 #d5ceb5 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 #d5ceb5 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 #d5ceb5 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.