Shades of Yellow & Names with HEX, RGB Color Codes

Here we have a list of 50 tints and dark shades of yellow, including color names, HEX and RGB color codes. You will find a large variety of shades and tints, including all the most common and popular variations of this primary color on the RYB & CMYK color models. This list may prove useful for graphic designers, website, and interior designers.

Yellow can range from extremely bright variations to pale tints to dark shades. Popular shades of yellow include mustard yellow, which is often used in clothing. Also, amber, bumblebee, and canary are among my favorites. Beige is commonly used in interior design. In paint, banana, ochre, buttercup, cream, and highlighter are popular shades.

In the RGB color model yellow is created by maximum equal amounts of red and green, 255 red, 255 green, and 0 blue.

50 Shades of Yellow – Names & Color Codes

Honey is a relativity dark shade of yellow, representing the color of honey.

Fire is a strong yellow color with a slight orange tinge. It moves towards red on the color wheel.

Amber color is another strong yellow shade. It’s situated between yellow and orange on the color wheel.

Cyber is a bright yellow with a slight orange tinge.

Named after a region of Italy (Tuscany), it’s the common yellow shade found in Tuscan landscapes.

Chartreuse yellow is a very bright yellow, with a slight greenish appearance. It’s commonly used for the color of tennis balls.

Canary is a bright yellow. It resembles the medium color of the Canary Bird. It also has a strong inclusion of green.

Cream is a very light tint of yellow. It is often considered a neutral variation.

Ochre, also referred to as yellow earth. It’s a naturally occurring color, and one of the darkest shades of yellow. The Ochre pigment comes from a combination of sand, clay and ferric oxide.

Lemon is a bright tint of yellow, representing the common color of the Lemon.

Beige color is a very pale and neutral yellow, it’s very popular in the world of interior design.

Mustard color is one of the most commonly worn shades of yellow, it has often been used in the world of fashion and design.

Bumblebee is a strong yellow shade, it has a high inclusion of green, and it has a somewhat orange tinge.

Laguna is a medium pale tint of yellow.  

Banana yellow has a couple of variations; this one is a stronger medium bright color.

Gold color is classed as a strong yellow shade, resembling the color of the precious metal.

Flax is a sandy or straw looking pale tint, its RGB values include strong amounts of green and blue. The first use of flax as a color name was in 1915.

Dijon yellow is named after Dijon mustard. It’s darker than normal shade of mustard due to being made with black mustard seeds.

Sand is a pale yellow orange tint. It resembles the common color of sand.

Safety yellow is a strong but relatively darker shade of yellow. It’s often used for hazard signs, and for some construction vehicles and safety equipment.

Macaroon is a light tint with a slight greenish tinge. It’s a common color of the small Macaroon cakes.

Khaki yellow is often used for clothing, including military personnel, as it provides good camouflage in hot sandy environments.

Citrine represents the color of the gemstone, it’s a somewhat dark shade of yellow with a green undertone.

Straw is a light pale tint of yellow. It closely matches the color of straw.

Saffron is a moderately dark yellow shade. It gets its color from the chemical known as crocin.

In America, this yellow shade was created just to be used on school buses.

Peach is a fresh looking pale tint of yellow, representing a common color of the fruit.

Resembling part of the color, usually the inner middle area of the Jasmine flower, which is a light tint of yellow.

Buttercup yellow is one of the most popular shades of yellow with paint.

Highlighter yellow is a very strong and bright variation, it has fluorescent properties.

This represents the pale yellow color of the fizzy or bubbly alcoholic beverage known as Champagne.

Dandelion is a darker shade of yellow. It’s obviously the color of the dandelion flower.

This is a tertiary color on the RYB color wheel. It’s between yellow and orange.

This is the other tertiary color sitting next to yellow on the color wheel.

Mikado is a dark shade of yellow that can be found on the Kazakhstan and Colombian national flags.

Titanium is a pigment, its full name is nickel antimony titanium yellow.

This dark yellow shade is often used in the clothing industry.

Maximum was the color of a crayon by Crayola.

Blond represents the more yellowish variation of blond hair.

The word Xanthic has Greek origins. This is the color of the xanthic acids, Xanthine and Xanthate.

Mellow was one of the Plochere colors. Records suggest that the name mellow was connected to the color and was first used in the English language in 1948.

Cadmium is a bright yellow-green. The color is from the cadmium pigment. It’s also a toxic and dangerous pigment.

This represents a common yellow shade of corn.

Cornsilk yellow is a light tint that resembles the color of the silk like strands that are connected to corn.