Cornflower blue

#6490cd

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 confident. 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 #6490cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6490cd

RGB100, 144, 205

HSL215, 51%, 60%

HSV215, 51%, 80%

CMYK51%, 30%, 0%, 20%

Lab59.03, 2.19, -36.04

XYZ26.25, 27.06, 61.6

Decimal6590669

Web safe#6699cc

Pantone279 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#4f81c6 #3d73bd #3666a8 #305a94 #294d7f #22406a #1c3455 #152741 #0e1b2c #070e17

Tints of cornflower blue

#729ad2 #80a4d6 #8eaedb #9db9df #abc3e4 #b9cde8 #c7d7ed #d5e1f2 #e3ebf6 #f2f5fb

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#cda164 Analogous#64c4cd Analogous#6d64cd Triadic#cd6490 Triadic#90cd64 Split complementary#cd6d64 Split complementary#c4cd64

Cornflower blue in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 51, 30, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6490cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

51 30 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

51 32 4 26

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 #6490cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6490cd; }
.text { color: #6490cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6490cd; }

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 #6490cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6490cd 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 #6490cd 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 #6490cd 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

The figures for #6490cd come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.