Cornflower blue

#6b94ba

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

Cornflower blue sits in the blue band, mid and soft. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Cornflower blue color values

Every conversion for #6b94ba, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6b94ba

RGB107, 148, 186

HSL209, 36%, 57%

HSV209, 42%, 73%

CMYK42%, 20%, 0%, 27%

Lab59.75, -3.98, -24.19

XYZ25.52, 27.85, 50.49

Decimal7050426

Web safe#6699cc

Pantone542 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#5987b2 #4c7aa4 #446d92 #3c5f80 #33526e #2b455c #23374b #1a2a39 #121d27 #0a1015

Tints of cornflower blue

#799ec0 #86a8c7 #94b1cd #a1bbd3 #afc5da #bccfe0 #cad9e6 #d8e3ed #e5ecf3 #f3f6f9

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#ba916b Analogous#6bbab9 Analogous#6b6cba Triadic#ba6b94 Triadic#94ba6b Split complementary#ba6b6c Split complementary#bab96b

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 42, 20, 0, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6b94ba on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

42 20 0 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

43 22 4 33

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Cornflower blue in css

Copy #6b94ba straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6b94ba; }
.text { color: #6b94ba; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6b94ba; }

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 #6b94ba against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6b94ba against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Cornflower blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #6b94ba 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn cornflower blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #6b94ba 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 #6b94ba are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.