Cornflower blue

#708ecc

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 220 degrees. 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 #708ecc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#708ecc

RGB112, 142, 204

HSL220, 47%, 62%

HSV220, 45%, 80%

CMYK45%, 30%, 0%, 20%

Lab59.11, 5.95, -35.31

XYZ27.25, 27.15, 60.93

Decimal7376588

Web safe#6699cc

Pantone279 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#5b7dc4 #466dbd #3d60aa #355495 #2e4880 #263c6b #1f3156 #172541 #10192c #080d17

Tints of cornflower blue

#7d98d1 #8aa3d5 #97adda #a4b7df #b1c1e3 #becce8 #cbd6ec #d8e0f1 #e5eaf6 #f2f5fa

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#ccae70 Analogous#70bccc Analogous#8070cc Triadic#cc708e Triadic#8ecc70 Split complementary#cc8070 Split complementary#bccc70

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 45, 30, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #708ecc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

45 30 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

45 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 #708ecc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #708ecc; }
.text { color: #708ecc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #708ecc; }

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 #708ecc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #708ecc 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 #708ecc 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 #708ecc 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 #708ecc 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.