Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.[1]
The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue hue.[2]
Uses
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle reported a blue dye produced from the cornflower.[3] This was also called Boyle's Blue[4] and Cyan Blue.[5] This dye color, however, was not widely commercialized.[6]
CornFlowerBlue () is an HTML color name, its hexadecimal code is #6495ED.[8]
Crayola
Cornflower is a Crayolacolor with hexadecimal code #93CCEA.[9] It was originally introduced in 1958, in the box of 48 crayons. The color is also called light cornflower.[10]
Cornflower blue is the default clear color used in the XNA framework.
Bavarian Infantry Uniform Color
Coat color of Bavarian infantry in the early 19th Century especially found in the Napoleonic Era.
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In popular culture
The German popular song "Kornblumenblau" (literally "cornflower blue") humorously glorifies extreme drunkenness, blau being German slang for "drunk" and cornflower blue being an intense shade of the color.[13]
In Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, Cornflower blue is a color associated with the Narrator's boss; it is revealed that he chose that particular shade of blue to highlight an icon.[14]
