Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green compared to blue. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.
The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue tone.
Robert Boyle reported a blue dye produced from the cornflower. This was also called Boyle's Blue and Cyan Blue. This dye color however, was not widely commercialized.
Cornflower blue is a defined color in the X Window (X11) color scheme. As such, it is a color available as a named color for webpages.
CornFlowerBlue ( ) is an HTML color name, its hexidecimal code is #6495ED.
Cornflower blue is a Crayola color. It was originally introduced in 1958, in the box of 48 crayons.
Cornflower blue is the default clear color used in the XNA framework.
Chuck Palahniuk mentions the color at least once in every one of his novels. The color also appears in the film adaptation of Palahniuk's Fight Club, where the Narrator says "It must've been Tuesday. He was wearing his cornflower-blue tie." In a separate scene the Narrator's supervisor asks, "Can I get the icon in cornflower-blue?"In Sara Gruen's novel "Water for Elephants" Jacob Jankowski dreams about his mother 'standing in the yard in a cornflower blue dress hanging laundry'.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.Such a cultural connotation may have been what Alexander Lukashenko was alluding to when he disparaged the Jeans Revolution as a "Cornflower Revolution".In season 8, episode 1 of How I Met Your Mother, Barney Stinson refers to a cornflower blue tie, a possible reference to the tie in Fight Club.On page 62 of Raymond Chandler's novel The Long Goodbye Phillip Marlowe describes Eileen Wade with "cornflower blue eyes".In episode 6x09 of TV show NCIS:Los Angeles Deeks tells Kensi that her favourite color is "cornflower blue".In Agatha Christie's murder mystery After The Funeral, Mrs. Helen Leo is described as having "eyes that had once been likened to cornflowers."
