Cornflower blue

#999fdf

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for cornflower blue, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Cornflower blue is a light blue that reads open. Light blues like this feel trustworthy, common in finance and software. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Cornflower blue color values

Every conversion for #999fdf, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#999fdf

RGB153, 159, 223

HSL235, 52%, 74%

HSV235, 31%, 87%

CMYK31%, 29%, 0%, 13%

Lab67.2, 12.47, -33.09

XYZ38.85, 36.9, 74.89

Decimal10067935

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2716 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#7f86d7 #646ecf #4a55c6 #3943b5 #313a9b #283080 #202666 #181c4c #101232 #070917

Tints of cornflower blue

#a2a7e2 #abb0e5 #b4b8e7 #bcc0ea #c5c9ed #ced1f0 #d7d9f2 #e0e2f5 #e9eaf8 #f1f2fb

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#dfd999 Analogous#99c2df Analogous#b699df Triadic#df999f Triadic#9fdf99 Split complementary#dfb699 Split complementary#c2df99

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 31, 29, 0, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #999fdf on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

31 29 0 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

33 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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Cornflower blue in css

Copy #999fdf straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #999fdf; }
.text { color: #999fdf; }
.border { border: 2px solid #999fdf; }

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 #999fdf against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #999fdf 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 #999fdf 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 #999fdf 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 #999fdf are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.