Amber (color)

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Amber
Color coordinates
Hex triplet
#FFBF00
B
sRGB (r, g, b)
(255, 191, 0)
CMYKH (c, m, y, k)
(0, 25, 100, 0)
HSV
(h, s, v)
(45, 100%, 100%)
Source
CIECD
B: Normalized to [0255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0100] (hundred)

These pendants made of amber are also amber colored.

The color amber is a pure chroma color, located on the color wheel midway between the colors
of gold and orange. The color name is derived from the material also known as amber, which is
commonly found in a range of yellow-orange-brown-red colors; likewise, as a color amber can
refer to a range of yellow-orange colors. In English the first recorded use of the term as a color
name, rather than a reference to the specific substance, was in 1500.[1]

Contents

1 SAE/ECE amber
o 1.1 Formal definitions

2 Amber in culture

3 See also

4 References

5 External links

SAE/ECE amber
SAE/ECE Amber

Color coordinates
Hex triplet
#FF7E00
B
sRGB (r, g, b)
(255, 126, 0)
H
CMYK (c, m, y, k)
(0, 51, 100, 0)
HSV
(h, s, v)
(30, 100%, 100%)
Source
CIECD
B: Normalized to [0255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0100] (hundred)
Amber is one of several technically defined colors used in automotive signal lamps. In North
America, SAE standard J578 governs the colorimetry of vehicle lights,[2] while outside North
America the internationalized European ECE regulations hold force.[3] Both standards designate a
range of orange-yellow hues in the CIE color space as "amber".
In the past, the ECE amber definition was more restrictive than the SAE definition, but the
current ECE definition is identical to the more permissive SAE standard. The SAE formally uses
the term "yellow amber", though the color is most often referred to as "yellow". This is not the
same as selective yellow, a color used in some fog lamps and headlamps.

Formal definitions

A turn signal emitting amber light.

Previously, ECE amber was defined according to the 1968 Convention on Road Traffic,[4] as
follows:
Limit towards green
Limit towards red
Limit towards white
Recent revisions to the ECE regulations have aligned ECE Amber with SAE Yellow, defined as
follows:

Limit towards green

Limit towards red
Limit towards white
The entirety[clarification needed] of these definitions lie outside the gamut of the sRGB color space
such a pure color cannot be represented using RGB primaries. The color box shown above is a
desaturated approximation, created by taking the centroid of the standard definition and moving
it towards the D65 white point, until it meets the sRGB gamut triangle.[citation needed]

Amber in culture
Computers

VT220 computer terminals were available with amber phosphors on their CRTs.

Interior design

The original Amber Room in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint
Petersburg was a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf
and mirrors. Due to its singular beauty, it was sometimes dubbed the Eighth Wonder of
the World.

Sports

In gaelic games Armagh play in a darker Amber color (the amber that is prevalent in the
Irish flag), Offaly play in the original colors of the Irish flag (Green, white and Amber)
and Kilkenny also play in black and amber, albeit a more yellow amber.
Amber is a color worn by English Football Clubs Hull City AFC, Bradford City AFC,
Barnet FC, Shrewsbury Town FC (As part of stripes), Mansfield Town and Cambridge
United FC. The color is also worn by the Scottish football club Motherwell FC, as well as
many other sports clubs around the world.

Traffic engineering

Amber is used in traffic lights and turn signals.

Business management

Amber is used in business management to indicate a status of work, as in RAG status. R

stands for Red, A stands for Amber, usually represented as the color Yellow in the reports,
and G stands for Green. Typically Green indicates that all is well and no action is needed,
Yellow indicates a wait-and-watch approach or some action to make the status Green, and
Red indicates that the work or project is not as planned and requires immediate attention
and corrective actions to turn it to Green status.

See also
Spectral color
List of colors

References
1.
Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw Hill Page 189; Color
Sample of Amber: Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample J3
SAE J578: Color Specification
ECE R6
4. ECE Convention on Road Traffic, 1968, p. 60

External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amber (color).
UNECE Regulation No. 6: Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Direction
Indicators for Motor Vehicles and their Trailers (E/ECE/324E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.1/Add.5/Rev.4)[1][2]
UNECE Regulation No. 48: Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Vehicles
with Regard to the Installation of Lighting and Light-Signalling Devices (E/ECE/324E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.1/Add.47/Rev.3/Amend.2)

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