Cornflower blue

#7795bb

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. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Cornflower blue color values

Every conversion for #7795bb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#7795bb

RGB119, 149, 187

HSL214, 33%, 60%

HSV214, 36%, 73%

CMYK36%, 20%, 0%, 27%

Lab60.79, -0.98, -23.11

XYZ27.32, 29.0, 51.17

Decimal7837115

Web safe#6699cc

Pantone645 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#6587b2 #5479a7 #4a6b95 #415e83 #385170 #2f445e #26364b #1d2939 #131c27 #0a0f14

Tints of cornflower blue

#839fc1 #90a8c7 #9cb2ce #a9bcd4 #b5c5da #c1cfe0 #ced9e6 #dae2ed #e7ecf3 #f3f6f9

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#bb9d77 Analogous#77b7bb Analogous#7b77bb Triadic#bb7795 Triadic#95bb77 Split complementary#bb7b77 Split complementary#b7bb77

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 36, 20, 0, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #7795bb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

36 20 0 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

37 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 #7795bb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #7795bb; }
.text { color: #7795bb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #7795bb; }

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 #7795bb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #7795bb 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 #7795bb 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 #7795bb 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 #7795bb are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.