Cornflower blue

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.[1]

Cornflower blue sapphire
For other uses, see Cornflower.
A cornflower
Cornflower blue (X11)
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#6495ED
HSV       (h, s, v)(219°, 58%, 93%)
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(100, 149, 237)
SourceX11
ISCC–NBS descriptorBrilliant blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Cornflower (Crayola)
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#93CCEA
HSV       (h, s, v)(201°, 37%, 92%)
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(154, 206, 235)
SourceCrayola
ISCC–NBS descriptorVery light greenish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone.[2]

Uses

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle reported a blue dye produced from the cornflower.[3] This was also called Boyle's Blue[4] and Cyan Blue.[5] This dye color, however, was not widely commercialized.[6]

X11

Cornflower blue is a defined color in the X Window (X11) color scheme.[7] As such, it is a color available as a named color for webpages.

HTML

CornFlowerBlue ( ) is an HTML color name, its hexadecimal code is #6495ED.[8]

Crayola

Cornflower is a Crayola color with hexadecimal code #93CCEA.[9] It was originally introduced in 1958, in the box of 48 crayons. The color is also called light cornflower.[10]

Microsoft XNA

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

Bavarian Infantry Uniform Color

Coat color of Bavarian infantry in the early 19th Century especially found in the Napoleonic Era. [11]

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.[12]

See also
  • List of colors

References
  1. "Jan Vermeer of Delft". Holland History. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  2. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, ed. Sybil P.. Parker, 1997, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 9780079115041, page 30
  3. The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall, 2004, Routledge, ISBN 9781136373855
  4. Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth (30 March 2007). The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. ISBN 9781136373855.
  5. Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth (30 March 2007). The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. ISBN 9781136373855.
  6. Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth (30 March 2007). The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. ISBN 9781136373855.
  7. Color Library documentation, Color::Library::Dictionary::X11 - (X11) Colors for the X11 Window System (rgb.txt) Archived 2013-06-27 at Archive.today (accessed 2012-06-29)
  8. "CornFlowerBlue". html-color-names.com. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  9. "Cornflower / #93ccea Hex Color Code Schemes and Paints". encycolorpedia.com. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  10. "Light cornflower / #93ccea hex color". ColorHexa. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  11. With Eagles To Glory/John Gill 1992 ISBN 1-85367-130-4 Pg.66 Table 2-1: The Bavarian Army in April 1809 (Line Infantry Regiments)
  12. "Kornblumenblau / Es gibt kein Pltzchen auf Erden free midi mp3 download Strand Hotel Sechelt bed breakfast". Ingeb.org. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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