Dislike of the color yellow

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I actually like the color yellow. My kitchen is painted bright yellow and barnyard red with roosters all over. My least favorite color is orange. Especially neon(traffic cone) orange. I think it's because it reminds me of a jailhouse jumpsuit. I am not a criminal, even suspected so that color gives me the creeps and I cringe whenever I see it. I went to pick out a cake for my dad last weekend. When the girl who was assisting me asked which color cake I wanted, I told her any color frosting would be fine except for the orange one. I ended up getting a pretty teal decorated cake.

I like yellow flowers like sunflowers.

"Yellow" is a generic name that we apply to a very wide variety of colors that fit within what we think of as "yellow" and that can reasonably be described and agreed-upon as being yellow. There are beautiful yellows and hideous yellows. (And there are personal preferences.)

The same can be said of all the colors for which we have names. The name (yellow, red, blue, etc.) is used to apply to a broad range of colors that fit within that descriptor.

There are also colors that we would be hard-pressed to name because they don't exactly fit as blue, red etc. Sometimes we come up with in-between names like teal or magenta. But these too are generic approximations that apply to a range of colors.

I can't say whether I like or don't like "yellow." But if I am shown a specific yellow I can say whether or not I like it. (Keeping in mind that a color I don't think I like could still look good in combination with other colors, like in a painting, for instance.)

My bedroom has two walls painted white and two walls painted "yellow."