sky blue

Cornflower blue
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#6495ED
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(100, 149, 237)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(219°, 58%, 93%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Cornflower blue, a shade of azure, is a shade of light blue with relatively little green compared to blue.

Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) are among the few "blue" flowers that are truly blue, most "blue" flowers being a darker blue-purple.

Variations of cornflower blue

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

Light cornflower blue

Light cornflower blue is the color called cornflower blue in Crayola crayons.

Other variations of cornflower blue

• Cornflower blue variation 1 (Hex: #6A99EE) RGB (106, 153, 238)
• Cornflower blue variation 2 (Hex: #709DEE) RGB (112, 157, 238)
• Cornflower blue variation 3 (Hex: #7AA4F0) RGB (122, 164, 240)
• Cornflower blue variation 4 (Hex: #83AAF1) RGB (131, 170, 241)
• Cornflower blue variation 5 (Hex: #92B5F2) RGB (146, 181, 242)
• Cornflower blue variation 6 (Hex: #5E91EC) RGB (94, 145, 236)
• Cornflower blue variation 7 (Hex: #588DEC) RGB (88, 141, 236)
• Cornflower blue variation 8 (Hex: #4E86EA) RGB (78, 134, 234)
• Cornflower blue variation 9 (Hex: #4580E9) RGB (69, 128, 233)
• Cornflower blue variation 10 (Hex: #3675E8) RGB (54, 117, 232)

Cornflower blue in popular culture

• The movie Fight Club (from a book by Chuck Palahniuk), "It must've been Tuesday. He was wearing his cornflower-blue tie."
• The book, by Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted, "In the French Louis XV lobby, the chairs and sofas all cornflower-blue velvet, the walls crowded and busy with plaster curls and scrolls painted gold, there, Miss America stood in her pink spandex active wear and asked for the key."

See also

• List of colors

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