Wheat (color)

Wheat is a color that resembles the light yellow of the wheat grain.

Wheat
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#F5DEB3
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(245, 222, 179)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(0, 9, 26, 3)
HSV       (h, s, v)(39°, 26%, 96%)
SourceX11
ISCC–NBS descriptorPale yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The first recorded use of wheat as a color name in English was in 1711.[1]

Wheat is one of the X11 web colors.

References

  1. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 207; Color Sample of Wheat: Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample F11

See also

  • List of colors


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