#6495ED · Cornflower
Click to copy#6495ED is a medium, highly saturated blue color, closest to Cornflower and near Blueberry and Blue Gray. In OKLCH it has 67% lightness and 0.14 chroma at hue 261°. Blue suggests trust, stability and calm; it is the most used hue in corporate and tech branding, which makes #6495ED a natural choice for links, primary buttons, finance and technology.
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HEX
#6495EDRGB
rgb(100, 149, 237)HSL
hsl(219, 79%, 66%)CMYK
58, 37, 0, 7CSS var
--cornflowerContrast
2.97:1 white · 7.06:1 blackSimilar named colors
How to use #6495ED
Black text passes WCAG AA on #6495ED (7.06:1); white text does not (2.97:1).
For a calm scheme pair #6495ED with its analogous neighbors #64D8ED and #7864ED; for contrast use its complement #EDBD64 as a small accent, and anchor everything with a neutral such as #1F1F24.
--cornflower: #6495ED;
$cornflower: #6495ED;
colors: { 'cornflower': '#6495ED' }