Cornflower blue

For other uses, see Cornflower.
Cornflower blue (X11)
 
    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)
 
    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

See also

References

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