Clear Yellow sits in the yellow family: very light in tone, vivid in saturation, warm in cast. Substitutes are thin here, with The Army Painter Maize Yellow the closest same-finish option at 97 percent and no brand hitting the strong-match bar. A cross-brand swap will get you most of the way, but eyeball it against the original first.
Clear Yellow equivalents in other ranges
This is one of the easy ones. A same finish twin exists, and 8 brands in the catalog land close enough to consider.
Closest The Army Painter equivalent: The Army Painter Maize Yellow, the same color for practical purposes (delta E 0.7).
- From Citadel: Citadel Bad Moon Yellow, close enough that batch variation matters more (delta E 1.1).
- Vallejo's closest color: Vallejo Yellow Wash, a usable stand-in rather than a twin (delta E 5.9).
- Nearest in the AK Interactive catalog: AK Interactive Radiant Yellow, a near match with visible drift up close (delta E 2.5), but it is an opaque acrylic so treat it as a color reference, not a swap.
- Best Two Thin Coats option: Two Thin Coats Serpent Eye Yellow, close, with a hint of drift side by side (delta E 2.5), but it is an opaque acrylic so treat it as a color reference, not a swap.
- From Green Stuff World: Green Stuff World Cyber Yellow, a near match with visible drift up close (delta E 3.4), but it is an opaque acrylic so treat it as a color reference, not a swap.
Side by side the two agree in lightness and temperature; at delta E 0.7 the gap is smaller than the variation between two pots of the same paint.
How to read the score
90+Close
80sUsable
<70Mix
The Army Painter
Citadel
Vallejo
AK Interactive
Two Thin Coats
Green Stuff World
Humbrol
Revell
P3 Paints
Scale75
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Frequently asked
What is the closest equivalent to Tamiya Clear Yellow?
The closest same-finish match is The Army Painter Maize Yellow at 97% color similarity.
What is Clear Yellow used for?
Clear Yellow is a wash that flows into recesses and pools in shadow. Common uses: deepen recesses and panel lines.