Shades of yellow

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Yellow
Wavelength	570–580 nm
Common connotations
happiness, sunlight, cowardice, summer, Easter
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFFF00
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(255, 255, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(60°, 100%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(97, 107, 86°)
Source	HTML/CSS
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.

Web colors

Yellow (RGB) (X11 yellow) (color wheel yellow)

Yellow (RGB) (X11 yellow)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFFF00
sRGBB (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)

Red, green and blue lights, representing the three basic additive primary colors of the RGB color system, red, green, and blue. Pure yellow light is composed of equal amount of red and green light.

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. Its complementary color is blue.

The RGB color wheel with yellow at 60 degrees.

Yellow (CMYK) (process yellow) (canary yellow)

Cyan, magenta, and yellow are the three subtractive primary colors used in printing.

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.

Yellow (NCS) (psychological primary yellow)

Yellow (NCS)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFD300
sRGBB (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
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Vivid yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Approximations within the sRGB gamut to the primary colors of the Natural Color System, a model based on the opponent process theory of color vision.

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)

Yellow (Munsell)
The hues of the Munsell color system, at varying values, and maximum chroma to stay in the sRGB gamut
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFDB00
sRGBB (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 Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (colorfulness), spaced uniformly (in terms of human perception) in three dimensions in the Munsell color solid. In order for all the colors to be spaced uniformly, it was found necessary to use a color wheel with five, non-arbitrary, equally spaced primary colors: red, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

The color of the sample is the most chromatic (colorful) yellow in the sRGB gamut that falls in the hue of 5Y (primary yellow) in the Munsell color space.

Yellow (Pantone)

Yellow (Pantone)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FEDF00
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(254, 223, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(53°, 100%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(89, 99, 73°)
Source	Pantone TPX
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.

Tints of yellow

Cream

Main article: Cream (color)

Cream
Strawberries with cream
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFFFCC
sRGBB (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

Main article: Lemon chiffon

Lemon chiffon
A lemon chiffon cake
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFFACD
sRGBB (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.

Light yellow

Light yellow
Color coordinates