Cornflower blue
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| Cornflower blue | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #6495ED | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (100, 149, 237) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (219°, 58%, 93%) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
- Sky Blue redirects here. For animated film, see Wonderful Days.
Cornflower blue is a shade of light blue with relatively little green compared to blue.
It is one of the colors available in a Crayola crayon box.
Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) are among the few "blue" flowers that are truly blue, most "blue" flowers being blue-purple.
Sometimes confused with Corn flour, a synonym abbreviation. Corn flour actually refers to a different, light yellow color.
[edit] Cornflower blue in pop culture
The novelist Chuck Palahniuk has claimed that the color cornflower blue appears at least once in each of his books. Also, the movie Fight Club, based on Palahniuk's book of the same name, contains a scene where the narrator's boss asks if a computer icon can be remade in cornflower blue. The narrator also implies that his boss always wears a cornflower blue tie on Tuesdays. Cornflower blue is also the default clear-screen background color in Microsoft XNA, possibly a reference to the movie.
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