Cornflower blue
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Cornflower blue, a shade of azure, is a shade of light blue with relatively little green compared to blue.
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[edit] Cornflower blue
| Cornflower blue | ||
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| Hex triplet | #6495ED | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (100, 149, 237) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (219°, 58%, 93%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) are among the few "blue" flowers that are truly blue, most "blue" flowers being a darker blue-purple.
Sometimes confused with Corn flour, a homophone. Corn flour actually refers to a different, light yellow color (although there is also light cornflower blue colored corn flour made from blue maize, the grain that is called corn in the Americas).
[edit] Light cornflower blue
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| Hex triplet | #93CCEA | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (147, 204, 234) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (201°, 37%, 92%) |
| Source | Crayola | |
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Light cornflower blue is the color called cornflower blue in Crayola crayons.
[edit] Cornflower blue in popular culture
Computer Game Design
- Cornflower blue is also the default clear-screen background color in Microsoft XNA, possibly a reference to the movie Fight Club (this reference is denied by the XNA team who just thinks that cornflower blue is a pretty color).
Film
- 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.
Literature
- The novelist Chuck Palahniuk has claimed that the color cornflower blue appears at least once in each of his books.
- Jason, a main character in Douglas Coupland's novel Hey Nostradamus! says that cornflower blue is his favorite color.
Religion
- In some Amerindian religions, blue cornmeal, which is colored a pale tint of light cornflower blue, is used instead of ordinary yellow cornmeal to bake special breads and cakes for special ritual occasions.
