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Shades of yellow. "Shade of yellow" redirects here. For the Griff song, see Shade of Yellow. 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.
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.
Straw / ˈ s t r ɔː / is a colour, a tone of pale yellow, the colour of straw. The Latin word stramineus, with the same meaning, is often used in describing nature. The first recorded use of straw as a colour name in English was in 1589.
Yellow is the color of light with wavelengths predominantly in the range of roughly 570–580 nm. In the HSV color space, it has a hue of around 60°. It is considered one of the subtractive primary colors
Category:Shades of yellow. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Types of yellow. Various shades of the color yellow. This category is for all varieties, not only shades in the technical sense.
Chartreuse (US: / ʃ ɑːr ˈ t r uː z,-ˈ t r uː s / ⓘ, UK: /-ˈ t r ɜː z /, French: [ʃaʁtʁøz] ⓘ), also known as yellow-green or greenish yellow, is a color between yellow and green. It was named because of its resemblance to the French liqueur green chartreuse , introduced in 1764.
Ochre (/ ˈ oʊ k ər / OH-kər; from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós) 'pale'), iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand. It ranges in colour from yellow to deep orange or brown.
Nankeen (also called Nankeen cloth) is a kind of pale yellowish cloth originally made in Nanjing, China from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton that is then dyed.
Its color ranges from pale to bright yellow, depending on the proportions of gold and silver. It has been produced artificially and is also known as "green gold". Electrum was used as early as the third millennium BC in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, sometimes as an exterior coating to the pyramidions atop ancient Egyptian pyramids and obelisks.
Pale yellow. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Ivory is an off-white color named after, and derived from, the material made from the tusks and teeth of certain animals, such as the elephant and the walrus. It has a very slight tint of yellow . The color is often associated with purity and elegance.