Cornflower blue

#73aeef

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 #73aeef, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#73aeef

RGB115, 174, 239

HSL211, 79%, 69%

HSV211, 52%, 94%

CMYK52%, 27%, 0%, 6%

Lab69.58, -1.21, -38.34

XYZ37.79, 40.15, 87.42

Decimal7581423

Web safe#6699ff

Pantone284 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#569dec #398ce8 #1c7ce5 #176cca #145cad #104d90 #0d3d73 #0a2e56 #061e38 #030f1b

Tints of cornflower blue

#7fb5f0 #8cbcf2 #98c4f3 #a5cbf5 #b1d2f6 #bdd9f8 #cae0f9 #d6e7fa #e3effc #eff6fd

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#efb473 Analogous#73ecef Analogous#7673ef Triadic#ef73ae Triadic#aeef73 Split complementary#ef7673 Split complementary#ecef73

Cornflower blue in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 52, 27, 0, 6.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #73aeef on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

52 27 0 6

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

52 29 4 12

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

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #73aeef straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #73aeef; }
.text { color: #73aeef; }
.border { border: 2px solid #73aeef; }

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 #73aeef against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #73aeef 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 #73aeef 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 #73aeef 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 #73aeef come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.