Cornflower blue

#8a9cdb

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, light and soft. Light blues like this feel trustworthy, common in finance and software. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Cornflower blue color values

Every conversion for #8a9cdb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8a9cdb

RGB138, 156, 219

HSL227, 53%, 70%

HSV227, 37%, 86%

CMYK37%, 29%, 0%, 14%

Lab65.2, 8.93, -34.08

XYZ35.16, 34.29, 71.78

Decimal9084123

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone659 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#7187d3 #5872cc #3f5dc4 #3550ad #2e4494 #26397b #1e2d62 #172249 #0f1630 #070b17

Tints of cornflower blue

#94a5de #9fade1 #a9b6e5 #b3bfe8 #bec8eb #c8d0ee #d2d9f1 #dde2f4 #e7ebf8 #f1f3fb

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#dbc98a Analogous#8ac4db Analogous#a18adb Triadic#db8a9c Triadic#9cdb8a Split complementary#dba18a Split complementary#c4db8a

Cornflower blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 37, 29, 0, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8a9cdb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

37 29 0 14

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

38 31 4 20

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 #8a9cdb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8a9cdb; }
.text { color: #8a9cdb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8a9cdb; }

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 #8a9cdb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8a9cdb 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 #8a9cdb 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 #8a9cdb 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

The figures for #8a9cdb come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.