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 are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark indigo hue.
Uses
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle reported a blue
dye produced from the cornflower.
[ The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall, 2004, Routledge, ] 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.
[Color Library documentation, Color::Library::Dictionary::X11 - (X11) Colors for the X11 Window System (rgb.txt) (accessed 2012-06-29)] 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
. 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
Microsoft XNA.
Bavarian Infantry Uniform Color
Coat color of Bavarian infantry in the early 19th Century especially found in the Napoleonic Era.
[With Eagles To Glory/John Gill 1992 Pg.66 Table 2-1: The Bavarian Army in April 1809 (Line Infantry Regiments)]
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.[Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1999, p. 49.]
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