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Shade of blue

For other uses, seeCornflower.

Cornflower blue (X11)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#6495ED
sRGB^B (r,g,b)	(100, 149, 237)
HSV (h,s,v)	(219°, 58%, 93%)
CIELCh_uv (L,C,h)	(62, 83, 254°)
Source	X11
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Brilliant blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Cornflower (Crayola)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#93CCEA
sRGB^B (r,g,b)	(147, 204, 234)
HSV (h,s,v)	(201°, 37%, 92%)
CIELCh_uv (L,C,h)	(79, 42, 228°)
Source	Crayola
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Very light greenish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-lightblue containing relatively littlegreen. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painterJohannes Vermeer.^[1]

Cornflower blue sapphire — Cornflower bluesapphire

The most valuable bluesapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-darkviolet-blue hue.^[2]

Uses

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Robert Boyle

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Robert Boyle reported a bluedye produced from the cornflower.^[3] This was also calledBoyle's Blue^[4] andCyan Blue.^[5] This dye color, however, was not widely commercialized.^[6]

X11

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Cornflower blue is adefined color in theX Window (X11) color scheme.^[7] As such, it is a color available as anamed color for webpages.

HTML

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CornFlowerBlue ( ) is anHTML color name, itshexadecimal code is #6495ED.^[8]

Crayola

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

RAL

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Cornflower BlueRAL code is RAL 270 50 40^[11]

Microsoft XNA

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

Bavarian Infantry Uniform Color

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Coat color of Bavarian infantry in the early 19th Century especially found in the Napoleonic Era.^[12]

In popular culture

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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.^[13]

InChuck Palahniuk'sFight Club, Cornflower blue is a color associated with the Narrator's boss; it is revealed that he chose that particular shade of blue to highlight an icon.^[14]

References

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^"Jan Vermeer of Delft".hollandhistory.net. Holland History. Retrieved2016-12-30.
^Parker, Sybil P., ed. (1997)."cornflower".McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Vol. 16.McGraw-Hill. p. 30.ISBN 9780079115041.
^The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall, 2004, Routledge,ISBN 9781136373855
^Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth (30 March 2007).The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. Routledge.ISBN 9781136373855.
^Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth (30 March 2007).The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. Routledge.ISBN 9781136373855.
^Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth (30 March 2007).The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. Routledge.ISBN 9781136373855.
^Color Library documentation,Color::Library::Dictionary::X11 - (X11) Colors for the X11 Window System (rgb.txt)Archived 2013-06-27 atarchive.today (accessed 2012-06-29)
^"CornFlowerBlue".html-color-names.com. RetrievedAugust 28, 2016.
^"Cornflower / #93ccea Hex Color Code Schemes and Paints".encycolorpedia.com. Retrieved15 August 2018.
^"Light cornflower / #93ccea hex color".ColorHexa. Retrieved15 August 2018.
^"Colour RAL 270 50 40 / Cornflower blue | RAL colour chart UK".
^With Eagles To Glory/John Gill 1992ISBN 1-85367-130-4 Pg.66 Table 2-1: The Bavarian Army in April 1809 (Line Infantry Regiments)
^"Kornblumenblau / Es gibt kein Plätzchen auf Erden free midi mp3 download Strand Hotel Sechelt bed breakfast".Ingeb.org. Retrieved20 November 2017.
^Palahniuk,Fight Club, 1999, p. 49.

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