Cornflower blue

#87abde

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, light and strong. Light blues like this feel trustworthy, common in finance and software. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Cornflower blue color values

Every conversion for #87abde, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#87abde

RGB135, 171, 222

HSL215, 57%, 70%

HSV215, 39%, 87%

CMYK39%, 23%, 0%, 13%

Lab69.15, 0.48, -29.63

XYZ37.74, 39.55, 74.75

Decimal8891358

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone284 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#6d99d7 #5487d0 #3a75c9 #3166b2 #2a5798 #23497e #1c3a65 #152b4b #0e1d32 #070e18

Tints of cornflower blue

#92b2e1 #9cbae4 #a7c1e7 #b1c9ea #bcd0ed #c7d8ef #d1dff2 #dce6f5 #e6eef8 #f1f5fb

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#deba87 Analogous#87d6de Analogous#8f87de Triadic#de87ab Triadic#abde87 Split complementary#de8f87 Split complementary#d6de87

Cornflower blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 39, 23, 0, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #87abde on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

39 23 0 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

40 25 4 19

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Cornflower blue in css

Copy #87abde straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #87abde; }
.text { color: #87abde; }
.border { border: 2px solid #87abde; }

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 #87abde against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #87abde against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Cornflower blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #87abde 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn cornflower blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #87abde 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 #87abde 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.