Yellow | |
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Wavelength | 570–580 nm |
Common connotations | |
happiness, sunlight, cowardice, summer, Easter | |
Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FFFF00 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (255, 255, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (60°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (97, 107, 86°) |
Source | HTML/CSS [1] |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Varieties of the color yellow may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation, intensity, or colorfulness) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a yellow or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
Yellow (RGB) (X11 yellow) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FFFF00 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (255, 255, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (60°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (97, 107, 86°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid greenish yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The color box at right shows the most intense yellow representable in 8-bit RGB color model; yellow is a secondary color in an additive RGB space.
This color is also called color wheel yellow. It is at precisely 60 degrees on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel (Image of RGB color wheel:). Its complementary color is blue.
Process yellow (also called pigment yellow or printer's yellow), also known as canary yellow, is one of the three colors typically used as subtractive primary colors, along with magenta and cyan. Canary yellow is derived from the colour of an average canary bird, though canaries can vary in colour from dark yellow to light pink.
Process yellow is not an RGB color, and in the CMYK color model there is no fixed conversion from CMYK primaries to RGB. Different formulations are used for printer's ink, so there can be variations in the printed color that is pure yellow ink.
The first recorded use of canary yellow as a color name in English was in 1789. [2]
Yellow (NCS) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FFD300 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (255, 211, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (50°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (86, 98, 67°) |
Source | sRGB approximation to NCS 0580-Y [3] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The color defined as yellow in the NCS or Natural Color System is shown at right (NCS 0580-Y). The Natural Color System is a color system based on the four unique hues or psychological primary colors red, yellow, green, and blue. The NCS is based on the opponent process theory of vision.
The “Natural Color System” is widely used in Scandinavia.
Yellow (Munsell) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FFDB00 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (255, 219, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (52°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (88, 99, 71°) |
Source | https://pteromys.melonisland.net/munsell/ |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The color defined as yellow in the Munsell color system (Munsell 5Y) is shown at apex of color wheel. The Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity), spaced uniformly in three dimensions in the elongated oval at an angle shaped Munsell color solid according to the logarithmic scale which governs human perception. In order for all the colors to be spaced uniformly, it was found necessary to use a color wheel with five primary colors—red, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
The Munsell colors displayed are only approximate as they have been adjusted to fit into the sRGB gamut.
Yellow (Pantone) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FEDF00 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (254, 223, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (53°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (89, 99, 73°) |
Source | Pantone TPX [4] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The color that is called yellow in Pantone is displayed at right.
The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #C, EC, M, PC, U, or CP—Yellow. [5]
Light yellow | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FFFFE0 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (255, 255, 224) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (60°, 12%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (99, 23, 86°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Pale yellow green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the web color light yellow.
Cream | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FFFFCC |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (255, 255, 204) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (60°, 20%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (99, 37, 86°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light yellow green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the web color cream, a pale tint of yellow.
Lemon chiffon | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FFFACD |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (255, 250, 205) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (54°, 20%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (98, 34, 81°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Pale greenish yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the web color lemon chiffon.
Lemon chiffon is a color that is reminiscent of the color of lemon chiffon cake.
Lemon (Crayola) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FDFF00 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (253, 255, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (60°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (97, 107, 87°) |
Source | Crayola |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid greenish yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Lemon is a color somewhat resembling yellow and named after the fruit. The color lemon is a representation of the color of the outer skin of a lemon.[ citation needed ]
The first recorded use of lemon as a color name in English was in 1598. [6]
Mellow yellow | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #F8DE7E |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (248, 222, 126) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (47°, 49%, 97%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (89, 68, 71°) |
Source | Plochere |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The color mellow yellow is displayed at right.
Mellow yellow was first used as a color name in English in 1948 when it was formulated as one of the colors on the Plochere color list.
The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. [7]
Donovan's album Mellow Yellow , named after the song "Mellow Yellow", was popular during the Summer of Love in 1967.
Royal yellow | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FADA5E |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (250, 218, 94) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (48°, 62%, 98%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (88, 81, 70°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
At right is displayed the color royal yellow.
The color royal yellow is a representation of the color of the robes worn by the Emperor of China.
The first recorded use of royal yellow as a color name in English was in 1548. Other names for this color are Chinese yellow and imperial yellow. [8]
Gold (Golden) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FFD700 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (255, 215, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (51°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (87, 99, 69°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Gold, also called golden, is a yellow-orange color which is a representation of the color of the element gold.
The web color gold (also referred to as orange-yellow) is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold . The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold".
The first recorded uses of golden as a color name in English were in 1300 to refer to the element gold and in 1423 to refer to blonde hair. [9]
Cyber yellow | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FFD300 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (255, 211, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (50°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (86, 98, 67°) |
Source | Pantone TPX [10] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The color cyber yellow is displayed at right.
The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color 14-0760 TPX—Cyber Yellow. [11]
Safety yellow | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #EED202 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (238, 210, 2) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (53°, 99%, 93%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (84, 94, 74°) |
Source | ANSI Z535 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Safety yellow is one of the standard high-visibility safety colors defined by ANSI standard Z535, which specifies standards for safety and accident prevention information. It is often used on hazard symbols, warning signs, guard rails, dangerous equipment, older American civil defense sirens (typically from the 1950s and 1960s), and some high-visibility clothing and personal protective equipment. The definition is mirrored in British Standard BS 381C and Australian Standard AS2700 (where it is known as golden yellow). In 1937, it was determined that safety yellow was the best color to be noticed by the human brain; as a result, the paint color of all United States school buses was changed from orange to safety yellow (see also school bus yellow).
Greenish yellow | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #EEEA62 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (238, 234, 98) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (58°, 59%, 93%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (91, 82, 84°) |
Source | Internet |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant greenish yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the color greenish yellow. It is the main color on the Indian 20-rupee note.
Chartreuse yellow | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #DFFF00 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (223, 255, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (68°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (95, 108, 97°) |
Source | Maerz and Paul [12] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellowish green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The first recorded use of chartreuse for the color that is now called chartreuse yellow in American English was in 1892. [13]
In the book Color Standards and Color Nomenclature (1912), "Chartreuse Yellow" is listed and illustrated. [14]
Pear | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #D1E231 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (209, 226, 49) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (66°, 78%, 89%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (86, 91, 93°) |
Source | ColorHexa [15] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellow green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Pear is a desaturated chartreuse yellow color that resembles the color of the exterior surface of Anjou or Bartlett pears.
Green earth | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #DADD98 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (218, 221, 152) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (63°, 31%, 87%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (86, 48, 88°) |
Source | Derwent [16] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light yellow green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the color green earth. It is also known as terre verte and Verona green. It is an inorganic pigment derived from the minerals celadonite and glauconite. [17] [18]
Moccasin | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #FFE4B5 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (255, 228, 181) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (38°, 29%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (92, 42, 62°) |
Source | X11 |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
A brownish yellow, common of the leather shoe with the same name.
Fuchsia is a vivid pinkish-purplish-red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.
Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name. The web color called lavender is displayed adjacent—it matches the color of the palest part of the flower; however, the more saturated color shown as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender historically and traditionally considered lavender by average people as opposed to website designers. The color lavender might be described as a medium purple, a pale bluish purple, or a light pinkish-purple. The term lavender may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, or grayish-purples, but only on the blue side; lilac is pale purple on the pink side. In paints, the color lavender is made by mixing purple and white paint.
Lemon or lemon-color is a vivid yellow color characteristic of the lemon fruit. Shades of "lemon" may vary significantly from the fruit's actual color, including fluorescent tones and creamy hues reflective of lemon pies and confections.
Puce is a brownish purple color. The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea color".
Orchid is a bright rich purple color that resembles the color which various orchids often exhibit.
Red-violet refers to a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red. In American English, this color term is sometimes used in color theory as one of the purple colors—a non-spectral color between red and violet that is a deep version of a color on the line of purples on the CIE chromaticity diagram.
Carmine color is the general term for some deep red colors that are very slightly purplish but are generally slightly closer to red than the color crimson is. Some rubies are colored the color shown below as rich carmine. The deep dark red color shown at right as carmine is the color of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter colors are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below.
Baby blue, also known as light blue, is a tint of azure, which is one of the pastel colors.
Spring green is a color that was traditionally considered to be on the yellow side of green, but in modern computer systems based on the RGB color model is halfway between cyan and green on the color wheel.
In optics, orange has a wavelength between approximately 585 and 620 nm and a hue of 30° in HSV color space. In the RGB color space it is a secondary color numerically halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow, as can be seen in the RGB color wheel. The complementary color of orange is azure. Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families, and absorb mostly blue light.
Spring bud is the color that used to be called spring green before the X11 web color spring green was formulated in 1987 when the X11 colors were first promulgated. This color is now called spring bud to avoid confusion with the web color.
Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma, lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors are shown below.
Pink colors are usually light or desaturated shades of reds, roses, and magentas which are created on computer and television screens using the RGB color model and in printing with the CMYK color model. As such, it is an arbitrary classification of color.
The color magenta has notable tints and shades. These various colors are shown below.
Varieties of the color blue may differ in hue, chroma, or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a blue or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these colors is shown below.
Violet is a color term derived from the flower of the same name. There are numerous variations of the color violet, a sampling of which are shown below.
There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below.
Shades of chartreuse are listed below. Chartreuse is a color between yellow and green, so named because of its resemblance to the color of the French liqueur green chartreuse.
Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel.