Color family · 11 characters
Yellow cartoon characters
Yellow is the brightest color a cartoon can use — the home of Pikachu, the Simpsons, SpongeBob, Tweety, and Pac-Man.
Homer SimpsonSimpsons yellow · #FED90F
Kyojuro RengokuRengoku flame · #E9B84A
Pac-ManPac-Man yellow · #FFD400
PikachuPikachu yellow · #FFCB05
SanjiSanji blond · #E9CB7B
SpongeBob SquarePantsSpongeBob yellow · #F9E813
TweetyTweety yellow · #FCE205
WALL-EWALL-E yellow · #CDA434
Winnie the PoohPooh gold · #EDB430
WolverineWolverine yellow · #F2C218
Zenitsu AgatsumaZenitsu yellow · #ECBF68
Why so much yellow in animation?
Yellow has the highest perceived brightness of any saturated hue, which is why it is reached for again and again when a character has to pop. Different yellows do different jobs — Pikachu's warm orange-yellow, the Simpsons' pale skin yellow, SpongeBob's cool lemon yellow — but all read instantly even at thumbnail size.
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