CSS named color

Cornflower Blue #6495ED

Cornflower Blue is vivid blue. Below: every color format, WCAG contrast against black and white, its tints, shades and tones, and the harmonies that pair with it.

Color values

Contrast & accessibility

WCAG contrast ratio of Cornflower Blue used as a foreground on white and black backgrounds.

Aa The quick brown fox
2.97:1

On white

AA ✕ AAA ✕ AA Large ✕
Aa The quick brown fox
7.06:1

On black

AA ✓ AAA ✓ AA Large ✓

Tints, shades & tones

Systematic variations of Cornflower Blue — click any swatch to copy its hex.

Tintsmixed toward white
Shadesmixed toward black
Tonesmixed toward gray

Color harmonies

Palettes built from Cornflower Blue by rotating its hue. Each swatch links to its closest named color.

Complementary

#6495ED ≈ Medium Slate Blue #EDBD64 ≈ Sandy Brown

Analogous

#64D8ED ≈ Sky Blue #6495ED ≈ Medium Slate Blue #7864ED ≈ Medium Slate Blue

Triadic

#6495ED ≈ Medium Slate Blue #ED6494 ≈ Pale Violet Red #94ED64 ≈ Light Green

Split-complementary

#6495ED ≈ Medium Slate Blue #ED7864 ≈ Salmon #D8ED64 ≈ Khaki

Tetradic

#6495ED ≈ Medium Slate Blue #ED64D8 ≈ Orchid #EDBD64 ≈ Sandy Brown #64ED78 ≈ Light Green

Use Cornflower Blue in your stack

Tailwind (arbitrary value)

Works for any property: text-[#6495ed], border-[#6495ed].

CSS custom property

Reference it anywhere with var(--color).

Build a full theme

Turn Cornflower Blue into a complete shadcn/ui palette — light & dark, contrast-checked, one-command install.

Extract a theme →

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Medium Slate Blue #7B68EE Royal Blue #4169E1 Medium Purple #9370DB Dodger Blue #1E90FF Steel Blue #4682B4 Cadet Blue #5F9EA0

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