Cornflower blue

#889edd

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 #889edd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#889edd

RGB136, 158, 221

HSL224, 56%, 70%

HSV224, 38%, 87%

CMYK38%, 29%, 0%, 13%

Lab65.68, 7.79, -34.44

XYZ35.43, 34.91, 73.28

Decimal8953565

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone659 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#6f89d6 #5575ce #3c60c7 #3253b0 #2b4797 #243b7d #1d2f64 #15234b #0e1731 #070b18

Tints of cornflower blue

#93a7e0 #9dafe3 #a8b8e6 #b2c0e9 #bdc9ec #c7d1ef #d2daf2 #dce3f5 #e7ebf8 #f1f4fb

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#ddc788 Analogous#88c8dd Analogous#9d88dd Triadic#dd889e Triadic#9edd88 Split complementary#dd9d88 Split complementary#c8dd88

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 38, 29, 0, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #889edd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

38 29 0 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

39 31 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 #889edd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #889edd; }
.text { color: #889edd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #889edd; }

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 #889edd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #889edd 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 #889edd 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 #889edd 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 #889edd are worked out. 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.