Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue hue.

Uses

Robert Boyle

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

X11

Cornflower blue is a defined color in the X Window (X11) color scheme. 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.

Crayola

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

RAL

Cornflower Blue RAL code is RAL 270 50 40

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.

In popular culture

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. In Chuck Palahniuk's Fight 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.