Blue color

Cornflower Blue #6495ED

#6495ED · rgb(100, 149, 237)

Cornflower Blue is the color #6495ED. In RGB it is rgb(100, 149, 237) — 39% red, 58% green and 93% blue. Its CMYK breakdown is 58% cyan, 37% magenta, 0% yellow and 7% black, and in HSL it sits at 219° hue, 79% saturation and 66% lightness. Cornflower Blue is one of the 140 standard CSS / HTML color names, so color: cornflower-blue works in CSS. The closest web-safe color is #6699FF.

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Cornflower Blue color codes

Hex#6495ED
RGBrgb(100, 149, 237)
RGB %39%, 58%, 93%
HSLhsl(219, 79%, 66%)
HSV / HSBhsv(219, 58%, 93%)
CMYKcmyk(58%, 37%, 0%, 7%)
OKLCHoklch(67% 0.141 261)
Closest web-safe#6699FF

Contrast

Contrast ratio of Cornflower Blue against white and black text (WCAG 2.1 needs 4.5:1 for body text).

White text — 2.97:1 Black text — 7.06:1

Shades, tints & tones

Shades — toward black
Tints — toward white
Tones — toward gray

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