Cornflower blue
Cornflower blue (X11) | |
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Color coordinates | |
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 |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
Cornflower blue (Crayola) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #93CCEA |
sRGBB (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".
See also
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".