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Light yellow

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Light yellow (#FFFFE0) is a very pale warm shade that appears across 4 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Jean Arp, and Wilhelm Kotarbinski and the Romanticism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Chili red (#E23D28), Zomp (#39A78E), and Light slate gray (#778899). The combination forms an almost-white, sunlit chord, built on a split-complementary spread, spans a mixed temperature range, with a sharp light/dark contrast that lets the darker companions read as depth.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Single Items palette card
Single Items
Raphael Kirchner
On Holiday palette card
On Holiday
Raphael Kirchner
Kovno. Castle of crusaders. palette card
Kovno. Castle of crusaders.
Nicholas Roerich · 1903
Perseus, Florence palette card
Perseus, Florence
John Singer Sargent · 1902
Lulu palette card
Lulu
Raphael Kirchner
South of Bellinzona palette card
South of Bellinzona
J.M.W. Turner · 1841

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Light yellow

4 palettes where Light yellow appears prominently — one per artist.

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale Palette 4 - Blazing Cream

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

66.1% Light yellow

Jean Arp Palette 1 - Blazing Cream

Jean Arp

39.5% Light yellow

Wilhelm Kotarbinski Palette 1 - Gleaming Calico

Wilhelm Kotarbinski

30.8% Light yellow

Dada Palette 1 - Gleaming Cream

Dada

18.3% Light yellow

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