Colours of textiles and dress
Dyed, woven, printed and worn.
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Yellow
A primary colour between green and orange, seen in sunlight, leaves, and pigmentsBasic colour · 🇫🇷 France +5
Yellow
Turmeric
A golden yellow dye and spice from the rhizome of a tropical plantColour named from nature · 🇮🇳 India +5
Yellow
Orpiment
A golden-yellow mineral pigment once prized for its brilliant colour and rarityPigment · 🇪🇬 Egypt +5
Yellow
Tartrazine
A synthetic lemon yellow dye widely used in food, cosmetics and medicinesDye
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Cream
A soft yellow-white named after the top layer of milkNamed shade
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Gamboge
A strong yellow pigment tapped from Southeast Asian treesPigment · 🇰🇭 Cambodia +5
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Indian Yellow
A clear, glowing orange-yellow pigment once made in India from cow urinePigment · 🇮🇳 India
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Lemon
A vivid yellow named for the colour of lemon fruitNamed shade
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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
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Isabelline
A pale grey-yellow or fawn colour seen in animal coats and old fashionNamed shade
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Old gold
A deep, dark yellow seen in sport, politics and traditionNamed shade · 🇬🇪 Georgia
Yellow
Imperial yellow jacket黃馬褂
A yellow riding jacket marking the highest honour in Qing dynasty ChinaTraditional colour · 🇨🇳 China
Yellow
Cadmium sulfide
A bright yellow pigment and semiconductor compound made from cadmium and sulfurPigment
Yellow
Palomino
A golden-coated horse with a pale mane and tail, prized for its striking lookNamed shade · 🇺🇸 United States
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Buff
A pale brownish yellow named for the colour of natural leatherNamed shade · 🇺🇸 United States +3
Yellow
Strontium chromate
A yellow pigment and corrosion inhibitor made from strontium and chromium compoundsPigment
Yellow
Anthoxanthin
A group of plant pigments ranging from white to yellow, used in foods and dyesPigment
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Maize
A yellow named for the colour of maize grains, ranging from pale to goldenNamed shade · 🇺🇸 United States +1
Yellow
Chrysothrix chlorina
A yellow to yellow-green powdery lichen used as a dye in India and SwedenColour named from nature · 🇸🇪 Sweden +5
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Arylide yellow
A family of semi-transparent yellow pigments used in art and industryPigment · 🇩🇪 Germany +1
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Stil de grain yellow
A yellow pigment made from buckthorn berries, once known as 'pink' or 'sap green'Pigment · 🇫🇷 France +2
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Champagne
A very pale yellow-orange named after the sparkling wineNamed shade
Yellow
Chrysophenine
A golden-yellow direct dye for textiles and biological stainsDye
Yellow
Golden ochre
A warm yellow pigment rich in iron, prized since ancient times for its pure colourPigment · 🇬🇷 Greece +2
Yellow
Diarylide pigment
A family of yellow organic pigments widely used in printing inksPigment
Yellow
Pigment Yellow 14
A diarylide yellow pigment used in packaging and textile printingPigment
Yellow
Saffronزعفران
A golden-yellow colour from the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus flowerColour named from nature · 🇮🇷 Iran +5
Yellow
Safflower
A thistle-like plant whose petals yield red and yellow dyesColour named from nature · 🇪🇬 Egypt +4
Yellow
Tansy yellow
A golden-yellow dye from the flowers of the tansy plantColour named from nature · 🇮🇪 Ireland
Yellow
Lutein
A yellow-orange plant pigment used in food and supplementsPigment · 🇺🇸 United States +2
Yellow
Dyer's greenweed
A yellow dye plant with golden flowers, found across Europe and TurkeyColour named from nature · 🇹🇷 Turkey
Yellow
Tagetes patula dye
A golden yellow dye and spice made from French marigold flowersColour named from nature · 🇲🇽 Mexico +3
Yellow
Weld
A plant once prized for its bright yellow dyeDye · 🇫🇷 France +3
Yellow
Quercitron
A yellow dye once made from the inner bark of the black oak treeColour named from nature · 🇺🇸 United States +1
Yellow
Cota tinctoria
A daisy-like plant once used to make yellow and golden-orange dyesColour named from nature
Yellow
Dyer's saw-wort
A European plant once used for its yellow dye from the leavesColour named from nature · 🇮🇪 Ireland +3
Yellow
Cosmos sulphureus dye
An orange-yellow dye from the flowers of the Cosmos sulphureus plantColour named from nature · 🇲🇽 Mexico +5
Yellow
Goldenseal
A North American herb with a yellow root once used as a dyeColour named from nature · 🇺🇸 United States +1
Yellow
4-Nitroaniline
A yellow chemical used to make dyes and other industrial productsPigment
Yellow
Wolf lichen yellow
A bright yellow-green dye and poison from a shrubby lichen of western North AmericaColour named from nature
Yellow
Cochlospermum yellow
A yellow dye from the roots of Cochlospermum trees in Africa and AsiaDye · 🇦🇴 Angola +2
Yellow
Old fustic
A yellow dye from a tropical tree, once key for military khakiDye · 🇲🇽 Mexico +1
Yellow
Garcinia cowa yellow
A yellow dye from the bark of the Garcinia cowa tree in tropical AsiaColour named from nature · 🇮🇳 India +5
Yellow
Martius yellow
A synthetic yellow dye once used for wool and in laboratory stainingDye
Yellow
Symplocos tinctoria yellow
A yellow dye once made from the bark and leaves of a North American treeColour named from nature · 🇺🇸 United States
Yellow
Cryptolepis yellow
A yellow dye from the roots of a West and Central African climbing shrubDye · 🇸🇳 Senegal +3
Yellow
Hairy puccoon
A yellow-flowered plant whose roots yield a red dyeColour named from nature · 🇺🇸 United States
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
- Maize: en:User:Pratheepps, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Cream: Aleksey Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gamboge: Maša Sinreih in Valentina Vivod, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Safflower: AndrewMT, CC BY 3.0, source
- Chrysothrix chlorina: Jason Hollinger, CC BY 2.0, source
- Turmeric: J.M.Garg, CC BY 3.0, source
- Cota tinctoria: AnRo0002, CC0, source
- Champagne: Jon Sullivan/PDPhoto.org, Public domain, source
- Strontium chromate: Quatrostein, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cadmium sulfide: Marco Almbauer, Public domain, source
- Orpiment: Ra'ike, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Anthoxanthin: Coyau, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tartrazine: Buli, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Garcinia cowa yellow: Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Palomino: (a friend of) Kvetina-Marie, CC BY 2.0, source
- Golden ochre: Marco Almbauer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Indian Yellow: Shisha-Tom, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Yellow: Mark Robinson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Chrome yellow: FK1954, CC0, source
- Isabelline: José Reynaldo da Fonseca, CC BY 2.5, source
- Tansy yellow: Georg Buzin ( Diskussion ), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Saffron: Hubertl, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lutein: Jynto ( talk ), CC0, source
- Dyer's greenweed: gailhampshire, CC BY 2.0, source
- Tagetes patula dye: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL 1.2, source
- Weld: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 3.0 at, source
- Quercitron: Willow, CC BY 2.5, source
- Dyer's saw-wort: Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Goldenseal: Eric Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cosmos sulphureus dye: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Lemon: André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- 4-Nitroaniline: David Rouzek, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wolf lichen yellow: Jason Hollinger, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cochlospermum yellow: Ethel Aardvark, CC BY 3.0, source
- Old fustic: Jorge Vallmitjana, Public domain, source
- Symplocos tinctoria yellow: James H. Miller & Ted Bodner, Southern Weed Science Society, Bugwood.o, CC BY 3.0 us, source
- Cryptolepis yellow: Herbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI), CC BY 4.0, source
- Hairy puccoon: Crazytwoknobs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source