Colors / Yellow

shades of yellow

The brightest hue at full saturation, spanning about 41° to 70°.

The shade ramp

Same hue and saturation, brightness falling from near-white to near-black. This is what most people mean by “shades of yellow”.

#F5E536

#DCCE30

#C3B62B

#AA9F25

#918820

#78701A

#5F5915

#46420F

#2D2A0A

#141304

Brightness ramp at hue 55°, saturation 78%.

The tint ramp

Same hue and brightness, saturation climbing from almost gray to full strength. Saturation is the channel players misjudge most often, because a washed-out yellow and a vivid one carry the same name.

#EBE9D8

#EBE7C0

#EBE5A8

#EBE390

#EBE178

#EBDF60

#EBDD48

#EBDB30

#EBD918

#EBD700

Saturation ramp at hue 55°, brightness 92%.

Across the range

Everything the eye files under yellow, sampled from 41° to 70°. Two colors at opposite ends of this strip still share one word.

#E0A628

#E0B028

#E0BA28

#E0C428

#E0CE28

#E0D828

#DFE028

#D5E028

#CCE028

#C2E028

Hue sweep from 41° to 70°.

Named yellows

Gold#FFD700
Mustard#FFDB58
Lemon#FFF700
Olive#808000
Khaki#C3B091

Why yellow is hard to remember

Yellow only exists at high brightness. There is no dark yellow — reduce the brightness and you get olive. That asymmetry makes yellow the family where memory errors run hardest in one direction: almost everyone rebuilds it too dark.

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