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Yellow. Yellow is a primary color in many models of color space, and a secondary in all others. It is a color often associated with sunshine or joy. It is sometimes used in association with cowardice or fear, i.e., the phrase "yellow-bellied".
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575–585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing.
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.
The Chinese saying "Yellow generates yin and yang" implies that yellow is the center of everything. Associated with but ranked above brown, yellow signifies neutrality and good luck. Yellow is sometimes paired with red in place of gold. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization.
Color theory, or more specifically traditional color theory, is the historical body of knowledge describing the behavior of colors, namely in color mixing, color contrast effects, color harmony, color schemes and color symbolism. Modern color theory is generally referred to as Color science.
The meaning behind an awareness ribbon depends on its colors and pattern. Since many advocacy groups have adopted ribbons as symbols of support or awareness, ribbons, particularly those of a single color, some colors may refer to more than one cause. Some causes may be represented by more than one ribbon.
Colors vary in several different ways, including hue (shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet, etc), saturation, brightness. Some color words are derived from the name of an object of that color, such as "orange" or "salmon", while others are abstract, like "red".
Color Meaning Black: S&M Dark Blue: Anal sex Light Blue: Oral sex Brown: Scat Green: Hustler/prostitution Grey: Bondage Orange: Anything goes Purple: Piercing Red: Fisting Yellow: Pissing
Color coordinates; Hex triplet #80FF00: sRGB B (r, g, b) (128, 255, 0) HSV (h, s, v) (90°, 100%, 100%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (90, 123, 119°) Source: RGB and CMYK color systems. ISCC–NBS descriptor: Vivid yellowish green: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
High yellow, occasionally simply yellow (dialect: yaller, yella), is a term used to describe a light-skinned person of white and black ancestry. It is also used as a slang for those thought to have "yellow undertones".