Cornflower blue

#9698dc

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for cornflower blue, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Cornflower blue sits in the blue band, light and soft. Light blues like this feel trustworthy, common in finance and software. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Cornflower blue color values

Every conversion for #9698dc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#9698dc

RGB150, 152, 220

HSL238, 50%, 73%

HSV238, 32%, 86%

CMYK32%, 31%, 0%, 14%

Lab65.05, 14.83, -34.79

XYZ36.72, 34.11, 72.36

Decimal9869532

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2716 C

Shades of cornflower blue

#7d7fd4 #6366cb #4a4dc3 #3b3eb0 #323596 #2a2c7d #212363 #191a4a #101130 #080817

Tints of cornflower blue

#9fa1df #a8aae2 #b1b3e5 #bbbce8 #c4c5eb #cdceee #d6d7f1 #dfe0f4 #e8e9f7 #f2f2fb

Colors that go with cornflower blue

Complementary#dcda96 Analogous#96bbdc Analogous#b796dc Triadic#dc9698 Triadic#98dc96 Split complementary#dcb796 Split complementary#bbdc96

Cornflower blue in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 32, 31, 0, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #9698dc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

32 31 0 14

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

33 33 4 20

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Cornflower blue in css

Copy #9698dc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #9698dc; }
.text { color: #9698dc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #9698dc; }

How cornflower blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Cornflower blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #9698dc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #9698dc against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Cornflower blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #9698dc sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around cornflower blue? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn cornflower blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #9698dc and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from cornflower blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #9698dc are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.