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

Uses

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 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 blue 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 blue.

Microsoft XNA

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

In popular culture