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Wheat

Hex #F5DEB3, rgb(245 222 179). An orange CSS named color.

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About Wheat

Wheat is a very light moderately saturated orange with the hex code #F5DEB3. In RGB it is made of 245 red, 222 green and 179 blue; in HSL its hue is 39°, with 77% saturation and 83% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 90.9%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "wheat" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.31:1 and against black 15.98:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Wheat mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

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Wheat 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Wheat

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Wheat with white and black. The readable text color on Wheat is black.

Wheat textSmall text on white

On white1.31:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 16

Wheat textSmall text on black

On black15.98:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -88

Black text on Wheat (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Wheat appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#E9DDB0
  • Deuteranopia#EFE3B4
  • Tritanopia#FFD6D2
  • Protanomaly#EDDEB1
  • Deuteranomaly#F0E2B4
  • Tritanomaly#F9DBC2
  • Achromatopsia#E0E0E0

Colors similar to Wheat

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Wheat in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.wheat {
  color: wheat; /* #F5DEB3 */
  background-color: rgb(245 222 179);
  border-color: oklch(90.9% 0.061 83);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-wheat-500, text-wheat-700... */
@theme {
  --color-wheat-50: #FFF9F0;
  --color-wheat-100: #FBEED8;
  --color-wheat-200: #F5DEB3;
  --color-wheat-300: #E8BE6B;
  --color-wheat-400: #CB9600;
  --color-wheat-500: #AE8000;
  --color-wheat-600: #956D00;
  --color-wheat-700: #785700;
  --color-wheat-800: #604500;
  --color-wheat-900: #4F3800;
  --color-wheat-950: #1F1400;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#F5DEB3] text-[#000000]">…</div>