Sometimes there's not enough ways to describe the color yellow. For this, I like to use Color Terms most of which can be used when describing a complexion or eye color.
Color Terms
Aeneous - shining bronze color
Albicant - whitish; becoming white
Albugineous - like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured
Amaranthine - immortal; undying; deep purple-red color
Argent - the heraldic color silver or white
Atrous - jet black
Aubergine - eggplant; a dark purple color
Aurulent - gold-colored
Azuline - Blue
Azure - light or sky blue
Badious - chestnut-coloured
Beige - light creamy white-brown
Brunneous - dark brown
Burnet - dark brown; dark woolen cloth
Caesious - bluish or greyish green
Cardinal - deep scarlet red color
Castaneous - chestnut-coloured
Castory - brown
Celadon - pale green
Celeste - sky blue
Cerulean - a mix of sky-blue; dark blue; and sea-green
Cesious - bluish-grey
Chartreuse - yellow-green color
Chlorochrous - green-coloured
Chrysochlorous - greenish-gold
Cinerious - ashen; ash-grey
Cinnabar - deep red or scarlet color
Citreous - lemon-coloured; lemony
Citrine - dark greenish-yellow
Claret - dark red-purple color resembling wine
Coccineous - bright red
Columbine - dove white
Coquelicot - brilliant poppy red
Corbeau - blackish green
Cramoisy- crimson
Cretaceous - whitish chalky color
Croceate - saffron-coloured
Cyaneous - sky blue
Eburnean - Ivory
Erythraean - reddish color
Ferruginous - of the color of rust
Filemot - dull brown like dead-leaves
Flammeous - flame-coloured
Flavescent - yellowish or turning yellow
Fuliginous - sooty; dusky; soot-colored; pertaining to soot
Fulvous - dull yellow; tawny
Fuscous - tawny brown
Gamboge - reddish-yellow color
Glaucous - sea-green; greyish-blue
Goldenrod - dark golden yellow
Greige - of a grey-beige color
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Non-FictionWelcome to Write Diversity, a Book of BIPOC Face claims, feature descriptions, and tips on character authentication from real people of color.
