Shades of yellow widely used by interior designers. Donovan's album "Mellow Yellow", named after the song Mellow Yellow, was popular during the summer of love in 1967. At right is displayed the color royal yellow. The color "royal yellow" is a representation of the color of the robes worn by the Emperor of China. The first recorded use of "royal yellow" as a color name in English was in 1548. Other names for this color are Chinese yellow and imperial yellow. The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Royal Yellow (color sample #83). Gold, also called
The Yellow and Blue The Yellow and Blue The Yellow and Blue is the alma mater of the University of Michigan, written by Charles M. Gayley. Gayley composed the lyrics in 1886 while he was a professor of English and Latin at UM. He was motivated to write the song in hopes of winning a $20 prize from the student editors of the yearbook (The Palladium). As he wrote the lyrics, Gayley was thinking of the school colors, "azure blue and maize." Ultimately the song became a paean to the color and light of late summer in Michigan: the yellow grain in the fields,