Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.[1]
| Cornflower blue (X11) | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #6495ED |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (100, 149, 237) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (219°, 58%, 93%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (62, 83, 254°) |
| Source | X11 |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant blue |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
| Cornflower (Crayola) | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #93CCEA |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (147, 204, 234) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (201°, 37%, 92%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (79, 42, 228°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Very light greenish blue |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue hue.[2]
Robert Boyle reported a blue dye produced from the cornflower.[3] This was also called Boyle's Blue[4] and Cyan Blue.[5] This dye color, however, was not widely commercialized.[6]
Cornflower blue is a defined color in the X Window (X11) color scheme.[7] As such, it is a color available as a named color for webpages.
CornFlowerBlue ( ) is an HTML color name, its hexadecimal code is #6495ED.[8]
Cornflower is a Crayola color with hexadecimal code #93CCEA.[9] It was originally introduced in 1958, in the box of 48 crayons. The color is also called light cornflower.[10]
Cornflower Blue RAL code is RAL 270 50 40[11]
Cornflower blue is the default clear color used in the XNA framework.
Coat color of Bavarian infantry in the early 19th Century especially found in the Napoleonic Era. [12]
The German popular song "Kornblumenblau" (literally "cornflower blue") humorously glorifies extreme drunkenness, blau being German slang for "drunk" and cornflower blue being an intense shade of the color.[13]
InChuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, Cornflower blue is a color associated with the Narrator's boss; it is revealed that he chose that particular shade of blue to highlight an icon.[14]
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