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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.
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.
In some uses, hexadecimal color codes are specified with notation using a leading number sign (#). [1] [2] A color is specified according to the intensity of its red, green and blue components, each represented by eight bits. Thus, there are 24 bits used to specify a web color within the sRGB gamut, and 16,777,216 colors that may be so specified.
The names stil de grain yellow and yellow madder came into use as the name for this yellow pigment in the early to mid-18th century, replacing the former name pinke. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In the 17th century, the word pink or pinke was used to describe a yellowish pigment, which was mixed with blue colors to yield greenish colors.
The earliest known use of chrome yellow in a painting is a work by Sir Thomas Lawrence from before 1810. [12] The first recorded use of chrome yellow as a color name in English was in 1818. [13] The pigment was also widely used in industrial applications, such as in the production of paint, plastics, and ceramics. [2]
Aureolin (sometimes called cobalt yellow) is a pigment sparingly used in oil and watercolor painting.Its color index name is PY40 (40th entry on list of yellow pigments). It was first made in 1831 by Nikolaus Wolfgang Fischer in Breslau characterizing it as "Doppelsalze" or double-salts [1] and its chemical composition is potassium cobaltinitri
Naples yellow is a saturated yellow, occasionally with pink or off-white hues. [12] It has a strong hiding power and effectively covers other pigments. [12] Temperature during production affects its hue. A more vibrant lemon-yellow is produced at higher temperatures, whereas an orange-yellow is produced at lower temperatures.
A color in the RGB color model is described by indicating how much of each of the red, green, and blue is included. The color is expressed as an RGB triplet (r,g,b), each component of which can vary from zero to a defined maximum value. If all the components are at zero the result is black; if all are at maximum, the result is the brightest ...