Colours of buildings and cities
Walls, roofs, tiles, doors and whole painted towns.
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Yellow
A primary colour between green and orange, seen in sunlight, leaves, and pigmentsBasic colour 路 馃嚝馃嚪 France +5
Yellow
Orpiment
A golden-yellow mineral pigment once prized for its brilliant colour and rarityPigment 路 馃嚜馃嚞 Egypt +5
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Cream
A soft yellow-white named after the top layer of milkNamed shade
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Naples yellow
A historic synthetic yellow pigment once prized by painters and pottersPigment 路 馃嚜馃嚞 Egypt +1
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Chrome yellow
A bright yellow pigment made from lead chromate, once popular in art and industryPigment
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Cadmium pigments
A family of strong yellow, orange, red and green pigments made from cadmium compoundsPigment
Yellow
Calcium chromate
A bright yellow, highly toxic pigment and industrial chemicalPigment
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Buff
A pale brownish yellow named for the colour of natural leatherNamed shade 路 馃嚭馃嚫 United States +3
Yellow
Strontium chromate
A yellow pigment and corrosion inhibitor made from strontium and chromium compoundsPigment
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Selective yellow
A yellow defined for car headlamps and fog lamps to cut glare in bad weatherNamed shade 路 馃嚝馃嚪 France +2
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Arylide yellow
A family of semi-transparent yellow pigments used in art and industryPigment 路 馃嚛馃嚜 Germany +1
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Navajo white
A pale yellow-orange paint shade named for the Navajo Nation flag鈥檚 backgroundNamed shade 路 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
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Magnolia
A soft cream shade named for the magnolia flower, common in British interiorsNamed shade 路 馃嚘馃嚭 Australia +1
Yellow
Attic ochre
A prized bright yellow ochre once mined near Athens for art and fine decorationPigment 路 馃嚞馃嚪 Greece
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Golden ochre
A warm yellow pigment rich in iron, prized since ancient times for its pure colourPigment 路 馃嚞馃嚪 Greece +2
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Mellow yellow
A soft yellow first listed in the Plochere colour system in 1948Named shade
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Buff: Johan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cadmium pigments: Marco Almbauer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cream: Aleksey Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Magnolia: Magnolia_Watsoni.JPG : WibblyWibby derivative work: Wikiklaas ( talk ), Public domain, source
- Selective yellow: Scheinwerfermann at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Strontium chromate: Quatrostein, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Orpiment: Ra'ike, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Golden ochre: Marco Almbauer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Attic ochre: ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Naples yellow: Matthias Stom, Public domain, source
- Yellow: Mark Robinson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Chrome yellow: FK1954, CC0, source