Wheat Color Codes

Wheat is a very light, saturated orange with the hex code #F5DEB3, RGB values of 245, 222, 179 and an HSL value of hsl(39, 77%, 83%).

HEX	#F5DEB3
RGB	245, 222, 179
HSL	hsl(39, 77%, 83%)
HSV	39°, 27%, 96%
CMYK	0%, 9%, 27%, 4%
LAB	89.35, 1.51, 24.01
CIELCHuv	89.35, 37.64, 63.67°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 155 C ΔE 3.4 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: wheat ΔE 0.0

Source CSS Color Module Level 4 keyword 'Wheat'

Wheat Color Hex Code

The Wheat color hex code is #F5DEB3. Those six digits are three pairs, F5 for red, DE for green and B3 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#F5DEB3

Wheat Color RGB Code

The Wheat RGB code is rgb(245, 222, 179). Red carries the most light at 245 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(245, 222, 179)

Wheat Color HSV Code

The Wheat HSV code is 39°, 27%, 96%. Read it as a hue of 39 degrees, 27% saturation and 96% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

39°, 27%, 96%

Wheat Color CIELChuv Code

The Wheat CIELCHuv code is 89.35, 37.64, 63.67°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 89 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 38 is how far it sits from grey.

89.35, 37.64, 63.67°

Tonal scale

What are Wheat Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Wheat Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #F5DEB3. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #B3CAF5, a light, saturated azure blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

#F5BDB3 and #EBF5B3 sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#B3F5DE and #DEB3F5 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #B3EBF5 and #BDB3F5. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #B3CAF5, and #B3F5BD with #F5B3EB. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

1.31:1

1.31

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Black background

15.98:1

15.98

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

At 1.31:1 against white, Wheat is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 15.98:1.

Check Wheat against another color →

Color vision

How Wheat looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#EBEBBF

Wheat shifts slightly here. ΔE 9.4

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#EDEEC1

Wheat shifts noticeably here. ΔE 10.1

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#F4C7C9

Wheat shifts noticeably here. ΔE 24.6

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#E0E0E0

Wheat shifts noticeably here. ΔE 24.1

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Wheat reads as #EDEEC1. That is a shift of ΔE 10.1, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 24.6. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Wheat in code

:root {
  --wheat: #F5DEB3;
}

.example {
  color: var(--wheat);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'wheat': '#F5DEB3',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let wheat = Color(
    red: 0.961,
    green: 0.871,
    blue: 0.702
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="wheat">#F5DEB3</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const wheat = Color(0xFFF5DEB3);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Wheat Color?

Wheat reads as earth and age. It is light enough to sit behind text rather than compete with it, and at 77% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 89 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Wheat Color?

In CSS you can write Wheat instead of the hex and get the same color: the two are 0.0 apart, which no eye resolves. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 155 C at #F4DBAA. The name Wheat comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Wheat Color Made?

On a screen Wheat is made by additive light: 245 red, 222 green and 179 blue out of 255, with red leading and 179 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 9%, 27%, 4%. Starting from the pure hue at 39 degrees, Wheat is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.