Cornflower blue

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Cornflower blue, a shade of azure, is a shade of light blue with relatively little green compared to blue.

1 Cornflower blue
2 Light cornflower blue
3 Cornflower blue in human culture
4 See also

[edit] Cornflower blue

Cornflower blue
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Hex triplet		#6495ED
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(100, 149, 237)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(219°, 58%, 93%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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 light cornflower blue colored corn flour made from blue maize [the grain that is called corn in the Americas ]).

[edit] Light cornflower blue

Light cornflower blue
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Hex triplet		#93CCEA
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(147, 203, 234)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(219°, 53%, 96%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Light cornflower blue is the color called cornflower blue in Crayola crayons.

[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

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.

In A Scanner Darkly, the cornflower and the color associated with it are associated with the fictional drug "Substance D" and from there the perpetual "war on drugs" and the U.S. government's hopeless entanglement/involvement with it.

Literature

The novelist Chuck Palahniuk has claimed that the color cornflower blue appears at least once in each of his books.
Phillip K. Dick's story A Scanner Darkly mentions the cornflower very visibly in the last scene.

Religion

In some Amerindian religions, blue cornmeal, which is colored a pale tint of light cornflower blue, is used instead of ordinary yellow cornmeal to bake special breads and cakes for special ritual occasions.

[edit] See also

List of colors

v • d • e Shades of blue
Air Force blue	Alice blue	Azure	Baby blue	Blue	Cerulean	Cerulean blue	Cobalt blue	Columbia blue	Cornflower blue	Dark blue

Denim	Dodger blue	Egyptian blue	Electric blue	Han Purple	Indigo	International Klein Blue	Light blue	Maya Blue	Midnight blue	Navy blue

Periwinkle	Persian blue	Powder blue	Prussian blue	Royal blue	Sapphire	Sky blue	Steel blue	Ultramarine