Cornflower blue

#4e84df

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for cornflower blue, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Cornflower blue is a mid blue that reads balanced. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Cornflower blue color values

Every conversion for #4e84df, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#4e84df

RGB78, 132, 223

HSL218, 69%, 59%

HSV218, 65%, 87%

CMYK65%, 41%, 0%, 13%

Lab55.53, 10.8, -51.74

XYZ24.71, 23.45, 73.04

Decimal5145823

Web safe#6699cc

Pantone279 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#3774db #2666d1 #225aba #1e4fa3 #19448c #153976 #112e5f #0d2348 #091831 #050d1a

Tints of cornflower blue

#5e8fe2 #6e9ae5 #7fa6e8 #8fb1eb #9fbcee #afc7f1 #bfd3f3 #d0def6 #e0e9f9 #f0f4fc

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#dfa94e Analogous#4ecddf Analogous#604edf Triadic#df4e84 Triadic#84df4e Split complementary#df604e Split complementary#cddf4e

Cornflower blue in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 65, 41, 0, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #4e84df on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

65 41 0 13

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

64 42 4 19

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Cornflower blue in css

Copy #4e84df straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #4e84df; }
.text { color: #4e84df; }
.border { border: 2px solid #4e84df; }

How cornflower blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Cornflower blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #4e84df against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #4e84df against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Cornflower blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #4e84df sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around cornflower blue? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn cornflower blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #4e84df and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from cornflower blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #4e84df are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.