Cornflower color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around cornflower. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

A clear mid blue leaning slightly violet, brighter than dusty blue and softer than royal. It is the blue of the flower it is named after.

Cornflower hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#6E93D6

HEX: #6E93D6
RGB: rgb(110, 147, 214)
HSL: hsl(219, 56%, 64%)
OKLCH: oklch(66.4% 0.109 261.7)
On white: 3.08:1
On black: 6.81:1

Shades of cornflower

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Cornflower color values

#6E93D6rgb(110, 147, 214)

Color spaces of #6e93d6
RGB	110	147	214
HSL	219°	56%	64%
HSV	219°	49%	84%
CMYK	0.49	0.31	0.00	0.16
XYZ	28.9977	29.0355	67.6817
Yxy	29.0355	0.2307	0.2310
CIE-Lab	60.8130	5.5077	-38.2508
Hunter Lab	53.8846	1.7606	-36.7519
OKLCH	66.4%	0.109	261.7°

#6E93D6 is 110 red, 147 green and 214 blue. Its blue channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #6699CC.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	01101110	10010011	11010110
Octal	156	223	326
Decimal	110	147	214
Hex	6E	93	D6

#6e93d6 mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#6E93D6
#6384C0
#5875AB
#4D6695
#425880
#37496B
#2C3A55
#212C40
#151D2A
#0A0E15
#000000

#6e93d6 mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#6E93D6
#7C9DDA
#8BA8DE
#99B3E2
#A8BEE6
#B6C9EA
#C5D3EE
#D3DEF2
#E2E9F6
#F0F4FA
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red23.4%
Green31.2%
Blue45.4%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#6E93D6
#B58C3C

Triadic

#6E93D6
#CE7775
#6CA465

Analogous

#6E93D6
#9487D1
#409FCA

Monochromatic

#0C2A64
#2B4C89
#4C6FAF
#6E93D6
#92B9FE
#CFE0FF
#F5F9FF

#6e93d6 on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 6.81:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 3.08:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #6e93d6

color: #6e93d6;
background-color: #6e93d6;
border: 3px solid #6e93d6;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #6e93d6;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(110, 147, 214, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(66.4% 0.109 261.7);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Cornflower on white measures 3.08:1 and on black 6.81:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.30:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Related colors: blue, navy, royal blue, cobalt, periwinkle, transparent blue. See every shade on the colors index.

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