Wheat

#e7cca2

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

This is Wheat, a strong orange at 37 degrees. 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 #e7cca2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e7cca2

RGB231, 204, 162

HSL37, 59%, 77%

HSV37, 30%, 91%

CMYK0%, 12%, 30%, 9%

Lab83.33, 3.31, 24.43

XYZ61.07, 62.78, 43.08

Decimal15191202

Web safe#ffcc99

Pantone467 C

Shades of wheat

#e0bc85 #d8ac68 #d19d4c #c58c33 #a8772b #8c6324 #6f4f1d #523a15 #35260e #181106

Tints of wheat

#e9d0aa #ebd5b2 #edd9ba #efddc2 #f1e2c9 #f3e6d1 #f5ead9 #f7efe1 #f9f3e9 #fbf7f1

Colors that go with wheat

Complementary#a2bde7 Analogous#e7aaa2 Analogous#dfe7a2 Triadic#a2e7cc Triadic#cca2e7 Split complementary#a2dfe7 Split complementary#a9a2e7

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, 12, 30, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e7cca2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 12 30 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 15 32 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 #e7cca2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e7cca2; }
.text { color: #e7cca2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e7cca2; }

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 #e7cca2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e7cca2 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 #e7cca2 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 #e7cca2 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

The figures for #e7cca2 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.