Vivid yellow is often employed in literature to evoke striking contrasts and illuminate details in both natural scenes and crafted imagery. Authors use this color to denote bursts of light and energy—a brilliant patch of sunlight on a floor ([1], [2]), the vivid yellow flash of lightning in a storm ([3]), or the radiant hues of a desert dawn ([4]). It also appears in the depiction of living beings, lending immediacy and vitality to features such as the snake’s eye ([5]), the crest of a bird ([6]), or even a character's hair ([7], [8], [9]). Beyond nature and persona, vivid yellow adorns everyday and artistic objects—from the embroidered tunics ([10]) and stubble on a canvas ([11]), to decorative touches like a silk tie or a frontispiece ([12], [13]) that catch the reader’s eye, demonstrating the color’s versatility in creating both a visual and emotional impact.
- The warm sunshine made an oblong of vivid yellow on the floor of the grocery.
— from The Little Regiment, and Other Episodes of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane
- The sunlight fell in vivid yellow patches through the cool odorous gloom.
— from Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
- Predictable also were the towering thunderheads that formed over the mountains, the rolling thunder, and the vivid yellow flashes of lightning.
— from The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
- A wondrous dawn, all mingled of scarlet, orange, and vivid yellows, with streaks of absinthe hue, burned up over the desert world.
— from The Flying Legion by George Allan England
- The eye of this snake is remarkable for its vivid yellow, crossed by a black longitudinal pupil.
— from Australian Search Party by Charles H. (Charles Henry) Eden
- The head is intense black; the plumage of the crown is rather long and loose, and when raised displays a vivid yellow crest.
— from Argentine Ornithology, Volume 1 (of 2)
A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Philip Lutley Sclater
- Behind the counter she had time to see the barmaid, a beautiful girl with dark eyes and vivid yellow hair.
— from A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George
- In the light of the drawing-room window the lady was five-and-thirty years of age and had vivid yellow hair.
— from The Marriages by Henry James
- To crown it all, her hair was dyed--a vivid yellow.
— from Tom Ossington's Ghost by Richard Marsh
- The tunics of these were all of a vivid yellow and upon the breast and back of each was embroidered the figure of a parrot.
— from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- He perched on a boulder and began to study Hawker's canvas and the vivid yellow stubble with the olive shadows.
— from The Third Violet by Stephen Crane
- His knitted silk tie, a combination of electric blue and vivid yellow, was a discordant note.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan
- Elinor was scanning a colored frontispiece—a thing of vivid yellows and brilliant blues.
— from A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne