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Cornflower blue (X11)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#6495ED
sRGB (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 (byte)

Cornflower (Crayola)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#93CCEA
sRGB (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 (byte)

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.

The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue hue.

Uses

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle reported a blue dye produced from the cornflower. This was also called Boyle's Blue and Cyan Blue. This dye color, however, was not widely commercialized.

X11

Cornflower blue is a defined color in the X Window (X11) color scheme. As such, it is a color available as a named color for webpages.

HTML

CornFlowerBlue ( ) is an HTML color name, its hexadecimal code is #6495ED.

Crayola

Cornflower is a Crayola color with hexadecimal code #93CCEA. It was originally introduced in 1958, in the box of 48 crayons. The color is also called light cornflower.

RAL

Cornflower Blue RAL code is RAL 270 50 40

Microsoft XNA

Cornflower blue is the default clear color used in the XNA framework.

Bavarian Infantry Uniform Color

Coat color of Bavarian infantry in the early 19th Century especially found in the Napoleonic Era.

In popular culture

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.

In Chuck 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.

See also

• List of colors

References

1. "Jan Vermeer of Delft". hollandhistory.net. Holland History. Retrieved 2016-12-30.
2. Parker, Sybil P., ed. (1997). "cornflower". McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Vol. 16. McGraw-Hill. p. 30. ISBN 9780079115041.
3. The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall, 2004, Routledge, ISBN 9781136373855
4. Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth (30 March 2007). The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. Routledge. ISBN 9781136373855.
5. Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth (30 March 2007). The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. Routledge. ISBN 9781136373855.
6. Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth (30 March 2007). The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. Routledge. ISBN 9781136373855.
7. Color Library documentation, Color::Library::Dictionary::X11 - (X11) Colors for the X11 Window System (rgb.txt) Archived 2013-06-27 at archive.today (accessed 2012-06-29)
8. "CornFlowerBlue". html-color-names.com. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
9. "Cornflower / #93ccea Hex Color Code Schemes and Paints". encycolorpedia.com. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
10. "Light cornflower / #93ccea hex color". ColorHexa. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
11. "Colour RAL 270 50 40 / Cornflower blue | RAL colour chart UK".
12. With Eagles To Glory/John Gill 1992 ISBN 1-85367-130-4 Pg.66 Table 2-1: The Bavarian Army in April 1809 (Line Infantry Regiments)
13. "Kornblumenblau / Es gibt kein Plätzchen auf Erden free midi mp3 download Strand Hotel Sechelt bed breakfast". Ingeb.org. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
14. Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1999, p. 49.

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