Cornflower blue
| Cornflower blue (X11) | |
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 Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #6495ED |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (100, 149, 237) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (59, 37, 0, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (219°, 58%, 93%) |
| Source | X11 |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Cornflower blue (Crayola) | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #93CCEA |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (154, 206, 235) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (201°, 37%, 92%) |
| Source | Crayola |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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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.
The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone.
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.
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.
CornFlowerBlue ( ) is an HTML color name, its hexidecimal code is #6495ED.
Cornflower blue is a Crayola color. It was originally introduced in 1958, in the box of 48 crayons.
Cornflower blue is the default clear color used in the XNA framework.
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