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| Cornflower blue (X11) | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates |
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| 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) |
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| Cornflower blue (Crayola) | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates |
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| 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) |
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Cornflower blue, a shade of azure, is a shade of light blue with relatively little green compared to blue. This color was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, the other being yellow.
Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) are among the few "blue" flowers that are truly blue, most "blue" flowers being a darker blue-purple.
The most valuable blue sapphires are those that are cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone.[1]
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Uses [edit]
Robert Boyle [edit]
Robert Boyle reported a blue dye produced from the cornflower.[2] This was also called Boyle's Blue[3] and Cyan Blue.[4] This dye color however, was not widely commercialized.[5]
X11 [edit]
Cornflower blue is a defined color in the X Window (X11) color scheme.[6] As such, it is a color available as a named color for webpages.
Crayola [edit]
Cornflower blue is a Crayola color. It was originally introduced in 1949, in the box of 48 crayons.[7]
Microsoft XNA [edit]
Cornflower blue is the default clear color used in the XNA framework, so it has attained a slight meme status.[citation needed]
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, ed. Sybil P.. Parker, 1997, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 9780079115041, page 30
- ^ The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments, Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall, 2004, Routledge, ISBN 9781136373855
- ^ http://books.google.ca/books?id=2OH28vpzzMsC&lpg=PT395&dq=cornflower%20blue&pg=PT186#v=onepage&q=cornflower%20blue&f=false
- ^ http://books.google.ca/books?id=2OH28vpzzMsC&lpg=PT395&dq=cornflower%20blue&pg=PT410#v=onepage&q=cornflower%20blue&f=false
- ^ http://books.google.ca/books?id=2OH28vpzzMsC&pg=PT395&dq=cornflower+blue&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ymHuT92UKMn00gGFxd36Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=cornflower%20blue&f=false
- ^ Color Library documentation, Color::Library::Dictionary::X11 - (X11) Colors for the X11 Window System (rgb.txt) (accessed 2012-06-29)
- ^ Crayola, Cornflower (accessed 2012-06-29)
