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Yellow blocks in Minecraft

109 of the blocks in Java Edition 26.2 come out yellow, lightest first. The hex under each one is the dominant colour of the textures that block is drawn with, measured from the files themselves.

Every yellow block 109

Split at about the middle of the family: 56 light yellow blocks at 55% lightness or more, and 53 dark ones below that.

Light yellow blocks56

Dark yellow blocks53

The hex values

The whole family as text, lightest first, ready to paste into a palette, a map-art planner or a shader.

109 yellow hex values 
#ffec9d  Yellow Glazed Terracotta
#e3dbb0  Smooth Sandstone
#e3dbb0  Smooth Sandstone Slab
#e3dbb0  Smooth Sandstone Stairs
#ddd3a5  Chiseled Sandstone
#dacfa3  Sand
#dacfa3  Suspicious Sand
#dcd3a5  Cut Sandstone
#dcd3a5  Cut Sandstone Slab
#dcd3a4  Sandstone
#dcd3a4  Sandstone Slab
#dcd3a4  Sandstone Stairs
#dad2a3  Sandstone Wall
#d5da94  End Portal Frame
#d5da94  End Stone
#d7c588  Birch Button
#d7c588  Birch Fence
#d7c588  Birch Fence Gate
#d7c588  Birch Planks
#d7c588  Birch Pressure Plate
#d7c588  Birch Slab
#d7c588  Birch Stairs
#d7c588  Glow Item Frame
#d7c588  Item Frame
#d7c78a  Birch Door
#d7c78a  Birch Trapdoor
#d7c386  Fletching Table
#d5c486  Birch Sign
#d5c486  Birch Wall Sign
#e3cc6a  Bamboo Trapdoor
#ffe64c  Block of Gold
#ffe64c  Light Weighted Pressure Plate
#ffec4f  Dandelion
#ccb67b  Birch Hanging Sign
#ccb67b  Birch Wall Hanging Sign
#cbb67b  Stripped Birch Wood
#cab67a  Stripped Birch Log
#d5cc6d  Sulfur Spike
#f7ce46  Bee Nest
#d6d666  Potent Sulfur
#fed639  Wildflowers
#d9c25e  Block of Stripped Bamboo
#c9aa6a  Pitcher Crop
#c2b36b  Sulfur
#c2b36b  Sulfur Slab
#c2b36b  Sulfur Stairs
#c2b36b  Sulfur Wall
#c29d62  Chiseled Bookshelf
#ba9c68  Tall Dry Grass
#f9c827  Yellow Carpet
#f9c827  Yellow Wool
#e9c836  Yellow Concrete Powder
#faab1c  Honey Block
#cdce4a  Sponge
#e5e533  Yellow Stained Glass
#e5e533  Yellow Stained Glass Pane
#b8955b  Stripped Oak Log
#b99559  Oak Hanging Sign
#b89559  Oak Shelf
#b99559  Oak Wall Hanging Sign
#b89659  Stripped Oak Wood
#bba35a  Sulfur Brick Slab
#bba35a  Sulfur Brick Stairs
#bba35a  Sulfur Brick Wall
#bba35a  Sulfur Bricks
#bba45a  Chiseled Sulfur
#bba45a  Polished Sulfur
#bba45a  Polished Sulfur Slab
#bba45a  Polished Sulfur Stairs
#bba45a  Polished Sulfur Wall
#d1b341  Horn Coral
#d1b341  Horn Coral Fan
#d1b341  Horn Coral Wall Fan
#c6b24d  Bamboo Button
#c6b24d  Bamboo Fence
#c6b24d  Bamboo Fence Gate
#c7b24d  Bamboo Mosaic
#c7b24d  Bamboo Mosaic Slab
#c7b24d  Bamboo Mosaic Stairs
#c6b24d  Bamboo Planks
#c6b24d  Bamboo Pressure Plate
#c6b24d  Bamboo Slab
#c6b24d  Bamboo Stairs
#d5cb3e  Horn Coral Block
#f2b016  Yellow Concrete
#bba84c  Scaffolding
#b0bf4c  Wet Sponge
#b58d50  Lectern
#af8f55  Oak Sign
#af8f55  Oak Wall Sign
#b9a94b  Bamboo Sign
#b9a94b  Bamboo Wall Sign
#b9aa4a  Bamboo Hanging Sign
#b9aa4a  Bamboo Wall Hanging Sign
#9e8b61  Birch Shelf
#a99846  Bamboo Door
#a99846  Bamboo Shelf
#9f844d  Bookshelf
#9f844d  Jungle Hanging Sign
#9f844d  Jungle Wall Hanging Sign
#9e834c  Stripped Jungle Wood
#c59825  Yellow Candle
#c98c1c  Block of Raw Gold
#de9b08  Yellow Bed
#ba8523  Yellow Terracotta
#977c45  Jungle Shelf
#967441  Oak Door
#a7ac1d  Melon
#ac8d08  Hay Bale

Where the colour comes from

Each colour is measured, not chosen: the block's textures are read out of the client jar, transparent pixels are dropped, the rest are quantised to four bits per channel and the largest group is the dominant colour. It is converted to HSL to pick the family — hue first, with saturation and lightness deciding white, grey, black and brown, since brown is a dark or muted red, orange or yellow rather than a hue of its own.

No block in this family is tinted at render time, so every colour here is the texture file exactly as it ships. The blocks the game does tint end up in red and green.

One state per block, the resting one the inventory shows, and one render each at fit=block so a torch and a full cube are drawn at the same scale. Every block here links to its own page, where the same colour is listed next to the textures it came from.

Questions about yellow blocks

What are the yellow blocks in Minecraft?

Java Edition 26.2 has 109 blocks whose measured colour is yellow, among them Yellow Concrete, Sand and Block of Gold. The full list on this page runs lightest first, from Yellow Glazed Terracotta to Hay Bale.

What is the lightest yellow block, and the darkest?

The lightest is Yellow Glazed Terracotta (#ffec9d, 81% lightness) and the darkest is Hay Bale (#ac8d08, 35% lightness), going by the dominant colour of each block's textures.

Which blocks count as light yellow, and which as dark yellow?

This page splits the family at about its middle: the 56 blocks at 55% lightness or more are listed as light yellow, from Yellow Glazed Terracotta to Yellow Stained Glass Pane, and the other 53 as dark yellow, from Stripped Oak Log to Hay Bale. Lightness is the L of the measured hex in HSL.

What is the hex code for Yellow Concrete?

#f2b016: the dominant colour of its textures, the most common colour once transparent pixels are dropped and the rest are quantised to four bits per channel. Every other yellow block's hex is in the list above.