Cornflower blue

For other uses, see Cornflower.

Cornflower blue (X11)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#6495ED
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(100, 149, 237)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(59, 37, 0, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(219°, 58%, 93%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Cornflower blue (Crayola)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#93CCEA
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(154, 206, 235)
HSV (h, s, v)	(201°, 37%, 92%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green compared to blue. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, his other most-noted favorite being yellow.

The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone.^[1]

Uses

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle reported a blue dye produced from the cornflower.^[2] This was also called Boyle's Blue^[3] and Cyan Blue.^[4] This dye color however, was not widely commercialized.^[5]

X11

Cornflower blue is a defined color in the X Window (X11) color scheme.^[6] As such, it is a color available as a named color for webpages.

HTML

CornFlowerBlue ( ) is an HTML color name, its hexidecimal code is #6495ED.^[7]

Crayola

Cornflower blue is a Crayola color. It was originally introduced in 1958, in the box of 48 crayons.

Microsoft XNA

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

Popular references

Chuck Palahniuk mentions the color at least once in every one of his novels.
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.^[8]
- Such a cultural connotation may have been what Alexander Lukashenko was alluding to when he disparaged the Jeans Revolution as a "Cornflower Revolution".
In Fight Club the Narrator says "It must've been Tuesday. He was wearing his cornflower-blue tie." In a separate scene the Narrator's supervisor asks, "Can I get the icon in cornflower-blue?"
In season 8, episode 1 of How I Met Your Mother, Barney Stinson refers to a cornflower blue tie, a possible reference to the tie in Fight Club.
On page 62 of Raymond Chandler's novel The Long Goodbye Phillip Marlowe describes Eileen Wade with "cornflower blue eyes".
In episode 6x09 of TV show NCIS:Los Angeles Deeks tells Kensi that her favourite color is "cornflower blue".

References

↑ McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, ed. Sybil P.. Parker, 1997, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 9780079115041, page 30
↑ The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall, 2004, Routledge, ISBN 9781136373855
↑ Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments.
↑ Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments.
↑ Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments.
↑ Color Library documentation, Color::Library::Dictionary::X11 - (X11) Colors for the X11 Window System (rgb.txt) (accessed 2012-06-29)
↑ "CornFlowerBlue". html-color-names.com. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
↑ "Kornblumenblau / Es gibt kein Pltzchen auf Erden free midi mp3 download Strand Hotel Sechelt bed breakfast".

Shades of blue

Air Force blue	Air superiority blue	Alice blue	Azure	Baby blue	Bleu de France	Blue	Blue-gray	Bondi blue	Brandeis blue

Cambridge Blue	Carolina blue	Celeste	Cerulean	Cobalt blue	Columbia blue	Cornflower blue	Cyan	Dark blue	Deep sky blue

Denim	Dodger blue	Duke blue	Egyptian blue	Electric blue	Eton blue	Federal blue	Glaucous	Electric indigo	Indigo

International Klein Blue	Iris	Light blue	Majorelle Blue	Marian blue	Maya blue	Medium blue	Midnight blue	Navy blue	Non-photo blue

Oxford Blue	Palatinate blue	Periwinkle	Persian blue	Phthalo blue	Powder blue	Prussian blue	Royal blue	Sapphire	Sky blue

Steel blue	Teal	Tiffany Blue	True Blue	Tufts Blue	Turquoise	UCLA Blue	Ultramarine	Violet-blue	Viridian

Yale Blue	Zaffre

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