Yellow is, as any Inside Out viewer knows, associated with joy, as well as energy and vibrancy. As the video points out, these are all excellent traits for cartoon characters.

Color complements are just one part of the yellow character trend; the color yellow holds a lot of significant connotations, too. It’s often associated with feelings of happiness, playfulness ...

Minions are yellow because the animators thought their shape resembled Kinder eggs. Winnie the Pooh was based on a World War 1 veterans real pet bear and author A.A. Milne based Pooh’s look on ...

WHAT IS square, yellow, and adored by under-10s, students and celebrities? The answer is SpongeBob SquarePants, the biggest custard- coloured cartoon sensation to sweep the nation since The Simpsons.

One of the first shows to introduce an entirely yellow cast was The Simpsons, and their colour was chosen to differentiate them from all the normal-coloured cartoon characters on TV: when you’re ...