Wheat

#dcc8a6

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 soft. 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 #dcc8a6, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dcc8a6

RGB220, 200, 166

HSL38, 44%, 76%

HSV38, 25%, 86%

CMYK0%, 9%, 25%, 14%

Lab81.44, 1.76, 19.57

XYZ57.05, 59.28, 44.51

Decimal14469286

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone467 C

Shades of wheat

#d2b88c #c8a873 #be9959 #af8845 #96743b #7c6031 #624c27 #49391d #2f2513 #161109

Tints of wheat

#dfcdae #e2d1b5 #e5d6bd #e8dbc4 #ebe0cc #eee4d4 #f1e9db #f4eee3 #f7f2eb #faf7f2

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#a6badc Analogous#dcada6 Analogous#d5dca6 Triadic#a6dcc8 Triadic#c8a6dc Split complementary#a6d5dc Split complementary#ada6dc

Wheat in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 9, 25, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dcc8a6 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 9 25 14

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 12 27 20

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 #dcc8a6 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dcc8a6; }
.text { color: #dcc8a6; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dcc8a6; }

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 #dcc8a6 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dcc8a6 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 #dcc8a6 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 #dcc8a6 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 #dcc8a6 is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.