Cornflower Blue#6495ED, a cool brilliant blue

Cornflower Blue in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

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What kind of blue is Cornflower Blue?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is Cornflower Blue's, measured rather than asserted.

Cornflower Blue's Munsell numbers: hue 6.2PB, value 6.1 (how light), chroma 12.3 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block brilliant blue, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 12.3 is moderate. Clearly colored, but not so saturated it fights the colors around it.

There's still some room before it hits the edge of what your screen can show for this hue. It could go a little more saturated and stay in gamut.

Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody's own renotation inversion.

Shades of Cornflower Blue, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #6495ED. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, cornflower-blue-500.

Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)

Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)

Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)

Is Cornflower Blue accessible? Contrast with white & black

Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. Black text on #6495ED clears WCAG AAA. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.

Rows are text, columns are background · 68 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

Cornflower Blue in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

This color shifts further than a press run can hold, so expect a visible difference. The pairs below show where each standard lands.

In CMYK, #6495ED is C57.8 · M37.1 · Y0 · K7.1. That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK above is the closest that standard can get.

Colors similar to Cornflower Blue

Here are other colors similar to Cornflower Blue along with accessible text pairings and whether or not they're print-safe. Explore The Blues

Colors that go with Cornflower Blue

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a warm medium amber #D6A46B. Rhapsody's pick is the split complement, just to one side of it, a livelier pair.

The accent is for the moments that need attention, the harmony for the ones that need calm; the neutral carries the text and surfaces in between.

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