Cornflower blue

#7ca4cd

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 grounded. 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 #7ca4cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#7ca4cd

RGB124, 164, 205

HSL210, 45%, 65%

HSV210, 40%, 80%

CMYK40%, 20%, 0%, 20%

Lab65.94, -3.16, -25.24

XYZ32.61, 35.24, 62.84

Decimal8168653

Web safe#6699cc

Pantone284 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#6695c5 #5186bd #4277ad #3a6898 #325982 #294b6d #213c57 #192d41 #111e2c #080f16

Tints of cornflower blue

#88acd2 #94b4d6 #9fbddb #abc5df #b7cde4 #c3d5e8 #cfdded #dae6f1 #e6eef6 #f2f6fa

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#cda57c Analogous#7ccccd Analogous#7d7ccd Triadic#cd7ca4 Triadic#a4cd7c Split complementary#cd7d7c Split complementary#cccd7c

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 40, 20, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #7ca4cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

40 20 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

41 22 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 #7ca4cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #7ca4cd; }
.text { color: #7ca4cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #7ca4cd; }

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 #7ca4cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #7ca4cd 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 #7ca4cd 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 #7ca4cd 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 #7ca4cd 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. 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.