Cornflower blue

#65a4cb

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

Cornflower blue sits in the blue band, mid and soft. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Cornflower blue color values

Every conversion for #65a4cb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#65a4cb

RGB101, 164, 203

HSL203, 50%, 60%

HSV203, 50%, 80%

CMYK50%, 19%, 0%, 20%

Lab64.67, -9.47, -26.19

XYZ29.42, 33.63, 61.44

Decimal6661323

Web safe#6699cc

Pantone2915 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#5198c4 #3f8bba #387ca6 #316d92 #2a5d7d #234e69 #1c3f54 #163040 #0f202b #081117

Tints of cornflower blue

#73acd0 #81b5d4 #8fbdd9 #9dc5de #abcee3 #b9d6e7 #c7deec #d6e6f1 #e4eff6 #f2f7fa

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#cb8c65 Analogous#65cbbf Analogous#6571cb Triadic#cb65a4 Triadic#a4cb65 Split complementary#cb6571 Split complementary#cbbf65

Cornflower blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 50, 19, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #65a4cb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

50 19 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

50 21 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 #65a4cb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #65a4cb; }
.text { color: #65a4cb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #65a4cb; }

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 #65a4cb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #65a4cb 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 #65a4cb 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 #65a4cb 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

Every value on this page for #65a4cb is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.