Which shade of yellow should you use this year?

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Yellow is a colour of contradictions. It radiates optimism and warmth, but can just as easily feel abrasive or cautionary. On the one hand it’s sunshine shades, on the other hazard signs. While it has represented abundance, power and good fortune, points out writer and cultural historian Kassia St Clair, it is also associated with cowardice, decadence and deviance.