Cornflower blue

A cornflower
Cornflower blue (X11)
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #6495ED
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (100, 149, 237)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (59, 37, 0, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v) (219°, 58%, 93%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Cornflower blue (Crayola)
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #93CCEA
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (154, 206, 235)
HSV       (h, s, v) (201°, 37%, 92%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green compared to blue. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.[1]

The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone.[2]

Uses

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle reported a blue dye produced from the cornflower.[3] This was also called Boyle's Blue[4] and Cyan Blue.[5] This dye color however, was not widely commercialized.[6]

X11

Cornflower blue is a defined color in the X Window (X11) color scheme.[7] As such, it is a color available as a named color for webpages.

HTML

CornFlowerBlue ( ) is an HTML color name, its hexadecimal code is #6495ED.[8]

Crayola

Cornflower blue is a Crayola color with hexadecimal code #93CCEA[9]. It was originally introduced in 1958, in the box of 48 crayons. The color is also called light cornflower blue.[10]

Microsoft XNA

Cornflower blue is the default clear color used in the XNA framework.

  • Chuck Palahniuk mentions the color at least once in every one of his novels. The color also appears in the film adaptation of Palahniuk's Fight Club, where the Narrator says "It must've been Tuesday. He was wearing his cornflower-blue tie." In a separate scene the Narrator's supervisor asks, "Can I get the icon in cornflower-blue?"
  • The German popular song "Kornblumenblau" (literally "cornflower blue") humorously glorifies extreme drunkenness, blau being German slang for "drunk" and cornflower blue being an intense shade of the color.[11]
  • The expression is used several times in describing the character Helen Easton who is a historian in the book, The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish.
  • In How I Met Your Mother's ninth and final season, Barney Stinson is seen contemplating which tie he should wear for his wedding ceremony and is freaking out over a cornflower-blue tie he left at home that would have brought out his eyes.
  • In a novel of The Witcher "Blood of Elves" by Andrzej Sapkowski, He describes Enchantress Triss Merigold's eyes as "Cornflower Blue" [12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Jan Vermeer of Delft". Holland History. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  2. ↑ McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, ed. Sybil P.. Parker, 1997, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 9780079115041, page 30
  3. ↑ The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall, 2004, Routledge, ISBN 9781136373855
  4. ↑ The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments.
  5. ↑ The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments.
  6. ↑ The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments.
  7. ↑ Color Library documentation, Color::Library::Dictionary::X11 - (X11) Colors for the X11 Window System (rgb.txt) Archived 2013-06-27 at Archive.is (accessed 2012-06-29)
  8. ↑ "CornFlowerBlue". html-color-names.com. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Cornflower / #93ccea Hex Color Code Schemes and Paints". encycolorpedia.com. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Light cornflower blue / #93ccea hex color". ColorHexa. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Kornblumenblau / Es gibt kein Pltzchen auf Erden free midi mp3 download Strand Hotel Sechelt bed breakfast". Ingeb.org. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  12. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_of_Elves
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.