| Yellow (RGB) (X11 yellow) (color wheel yellow) (electric yellow) | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FFFF33 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 255, 51) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (60°, 80%, 100%) |
| Source | X11 |
| B: Normalized to (byte) |
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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.
This color is called electric yellow when it is contrasted to the color process yellow, shown below.
Read more about this topic: Shades Of Yellow, Computer Web Color Yellow
Famous quotes containing the words yellow and/or wheel:
““Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“So I was glad of the fog’s
Taking me to you
Undetermined summer thing eaten
Of grief and passage where you stay.
The wheel is ready to turn again.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)