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amarillo blanquecino

English translation: pale yellow /whitish yellow

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Spanish term or phrase:amarillo blanquecino
English translation:pale yellow /whitish yellow
Entered by: Kate Major Patience

13:22 Mar 26, 2008
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Cosmetics, Beauty / Micropigmentation treatments
Spanish term or phrase: amarillo blanquecino
En la teoría de color para pigmentología se parte de cuatro colores generadores (negro, rojo, amarillo y blanco) para obtener los colores bigenerados (amarillo blanquecino, rosa, naranja, gris, violeta berenjena y verde oliva) o los trigenerados (amarillo anaranjado, violeta lila, caqui ceniza, castaño cálido).
What do we think: off-white, dirty white, yellowish white, whitish yellow, or pale yellow? European Spanish to UK English please. Thank you in advance for your input!
Kate Major Patience
Spain
Local time: 13:18
pale yellow or maybe yellowish white
Explanation:
I prefer pale yellow to whitish yellow.


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Note added at 22 mins (2008-03-26 13:45:13 GMT)
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if a colour is whitish isn't it pale? Just a thought
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bcsantos
Gibraltar
Local time: 13:18
Grading comment
ok. went for pale yellow and client agreed with that choice, so that's fantastic and thatnks everyone for your input.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +8Whitish yellow
Beta Cummins
3 +3pale yellow or maybe yellowish white
bcsantos
4 +1milky yellow
Tatty
4pastel yellow / cream
Ramon UK


  

Answers


21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
pale yellow or maybe yellowish white


Explanation:
I prefer pale yellow to whitish yellow.


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Note added at 22 mins (2008-03-26 13:45:13 GMT)
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if a colour is whitish isn't it pale? Just a thought

bcsantos
Gibraltar
Local time: 13:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
ok. went for pale yellow and client agreed with that choice, so that's fantastic and thatnks everyone for your input.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sinead --: Pale yellow sounds better, certainly more attractive than any of the "ish" adjectives.
8 mins
  -> just so; thnaks
agree  Tatty: Pale yellow
34 mins
  -> thanks
neutral  Sp-EnTranslator: pale yellow= amarillo palido; yellowish white=blanco amarillento
37 mins
  -> thanks
agree  Ruth Rubina: yellowish white
1 hr
  -> thanks!
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
pastel yellow / cream


Explanation:
&btnG...or simply light yellow but not dirty white as that would be white mixed with brown and be a more 'beige' colour.

The colour 'cream' is a very very light yellow almost white and used to describe paints, clothes etc.

http://architecture.about.com/library/bl-color.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rl...

Pastel yellow is used a lot in colour books etc, have a look here:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=pastel y...

Pastel Yellow Solid Color Party Supplies - Tableware
http://www.partyoptions.net/solid_color/pastel_yellow_paper_...

Premium Plus Flokati Pastel Yellow Rug - 3AP0425
http://www.decoratetoday.com/american/rugs/819309968-premium...

Rainbeau Tour Pastel Yellow -Personalized - Golf Balls - Golfballs.com
http://www.golfballs.com/PB1071-PPY0/Rainbeau-Tour-Pastel-Ye...




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Note added at 32 mins (2008-03-26 13:55:28 GMT)
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have a look at the wikipedia definition which names 'pastel color' as basically the combination of a colour with white (which would suit your 'colores bigenerados' context above)

a tint is the mixture of a color with white (also called a pastel color) ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastel_colors







Ramon UK
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Sp-EnTranslator: I basically agree yet there is a name in Spanish for pastel yellow /cream=amarillo pastel/crema
41 mins
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56 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
milky yellow


Explanation:
One for the pot, but I prefer pale yellow.

Tatty
Local time: 13:18
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Sp-EnTranslator: yet, again, this would be 'amarillo lechoso' in Spanish
8 mins
  -> Better than whitish yellow IMO!
agree  margaret caulfield: I think this gets the gist of the matter
12 hrs
  -> Thanks!
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +8
Whitish yellow


Explanation:
ditto

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Note added at 1 hr (2008-03-26 14:44:43 GMT)
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The nomenclature of the colors is very specific in the context. I wouldn't reverse it to "yelowish white"

Beta Cummins
United States
Local time: 07:18
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sandra Constantino
5 mins
  -> Thank you, Sandra!
agree  tristar: or yellowish white :o)
11 mins
  -> Thank you, Tristar!
agree  Graciela Vicente
12 mins
  -> Thank you, Gracie!
agree  Marcela Dutra
17 mins
  -> Thank you, Marcela!
agree  Sp-EnTranslator
54 mins
  -> Thank you, Clo!
agree  Janine Libbey
1 hr
  -> ¡Viva la linda Madri! Thank you!
agree  MariCarmen Pizarro
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Mari!
agree  margaret caulfield: Also
13 hrs
  -> Thank you, Margaret!
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