Cornflower blue

#668abe

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

This is Cornflower blue, a soft blue at 215 degrees. 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 #668abe, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#668abe

RGB102, 138, 190

HSL215, 40%, 57%

HSV215, 46%, 75%

CMYK46%, 27%, 0%, 25%

Lab56.8, 1.63, -31.04

XYZ23.86, 24.72, 52.23

Decimal6720190

Web safe#6699cc

Pantone279 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#547cb6 #476fa8 #406396 #385784 #304b71 #283f5f #21334d #19263a #111a28 #090e15

Tints of cornflower blue

#7495c4 #829fca #90aad0 #9eb5d6 #acc0dc #bacae2 #c8d5e8 #d6e0ee #e4ebf4 #f2f5fa

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#be9a66 Analogous#66b6be Analogous#6e66be Triadic#be668a Triadic#8abe66 Split complementary#be6e66 Split complementary#b6be66

Cornflower blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 46, 27, 0, 25.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #668abe on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

46 27 0 25

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

46 29 4 31

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 #668abe straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #668abe; }
.text { color: #668abe; }
.border { border: 2px solid #668abe; }

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 #668abe against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #668abe 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 #668abe 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 #668abe 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 #668abe are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.