Cornflower blue
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| Cornflower blue | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #6495ED | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (100, 149, 237) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (219°, 58%, 93%) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
Cornflower blue, a shade of sky blue, is a shade of light blue with relatively little green compared to blue.
It is one of the colors available in a Crayola crayon box.
Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) are among the few "blue" flowers that are truly blue, most "blue" flowers being a darker blue-purple.
Sometimes confused with Corn flour, a synonym abbreviation. Corn flour actually refers to a different, light yellow color (although there is also cornflower blue colored corn flour made from blue maize [the grain that is called corn in the Americas ]).
[edit] Cornflower blue in human culture
Computer Game Design
- Cornflower blue is also the default clear-screen background color in Microsoft XNA, possibly a reference to the movie Fight Club.
Film
- The movie Fight Club, based on Palahniuk's book of the same name, contains a scene where the narrator's boss asks if a computer icon can be remade in cornflower blue. The narrator also implies that his boss always wears a cornflower blue tie on Tuesdays.
Literature
- The novelist Chuck Palahniuk has claimed that the color cornflower blue appears at least once in each of his books.
Religion
- In many Amerindian religions, cornflower blue colored maize flour from blue corn (maize) is baked into special breads and/or cakes for special ritual occasions.
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