Shades 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. 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.
Tints of yellow
Light yellow
Displayed at right is the web color light yellow.
Cream
Displayed at right is the web color cream, a pale tint of yellow.
Lemon chiffon
Displayed at right is the web color lemon chiffon
Lemon chiffon is a color that is reminiscent of the color of lemon chiffon cake.
Computer web color yellow
Yellow (RGB) (X11 yellow) (color wheel yellow)
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.
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