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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: ).
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Hue: representing the different colors of the rainbow or color wheel (e.g. 'red', 'orange', 'yellow', etc.); roughly analogous to the color's wavelength or frequency. Saturation: the colorfulness of the color, i.e. a measure of vibrant vs. pale. Luminosity: a measurement of intensity or 'brightness'.
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. [2
The word yellow is from the Old English geolu, geolwe (oblique case), meaning "yellow, and yellowish", derived from the Proto-Germanic word gelwaz "yellow". It has the same Indo-European base, gel-, as the words gold and yell; gʰel-means both bright and gleaming, and to cry out.
Isabelline (/ ɪ z ə ˈ b ɛ l ɪ n /; also known as isabella) is a pale grey-yellow, pale fawn, pale cream-brown or parchment colour. It is primarily found in animal coat colouring, particularly plumage colour in birds and, in Europe, in horses. It also has historically been applied to fashion.
Nankeen (also called Nankeen cloth) is a kind of pale yellowish cloth originally made in Nanjing, China from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton that is then dyed. [1]
Yellow" is in reference to the usually very pale undertone to the skin color of members of this group, due to mixture with white people. [4] Another reading of the etymology of the word "high" is that it is a slang word for "very", often used in Southern English, therefore "very yellow" (as opposed to brown).