Is amber a shade of yellow?

I'd call it a reddish gold sort of yellow. Maybe a shade of orange? The turn signals on cars are generally amber, but it varies by vehicle

I mentally categorise it as a shade of orange rather than yellow.

It's loosely defined as the midpoint between yellow and orange. There are technical definitions used in industry and automotive. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber\_(color)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_(color))

Amber is between orange and yellow, and you can reasonably call it either. But when it comes to traffic lights we always call it yellow, just for the sake of not having multiple names for it. It’s a yellow light as far as anyone is concerned.

Amber reads as a shade of yellow to my eyes, unless it's a very orange-heavy amber

Amber is the color of amber which is a gemstone made of tree resin. Whether it is most similar to yellow or orange is subjective. I am not an engineer, but traffic lights are likely called amber so as to designate the specific hue they use. There are hundreds of color names like this that are used only in these technical applications.

Amber is the colour of amber!

i think it's more yellow than orange. Though, looking at the opinions in this thread it seems there's no definitive answer

In project management and business contexts, you'll often see status referred to as "red/amber/green" or "RAG." The "amber" is what most people would just call yellow, but true yellow doesn't show up nicely in presentations or reports. So they use the deeper, more orange-y yellow shade.

Amber is the color of your energy. Shades of gold display naturally.

Color categories don’t have universal boundaries. Some colors, like amber and teal lie in ambiguous space, so you won’t get a straight answer. Here’s a website where you can check how your dividing line between blue and green compares to other people https://ismy.blue

All I know is I was taking a written driving test once and had the question "What color are the flashing lights on the front of a school bus?" I answered "yellow," and it was marked wrong because the correct answer is "amber." So, yes, amber is yellow, but not at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

I would say it's more yellow than orange, but it's more it's own color rather than a shade of yellow. Like how teal is green mixed with blue rather than really a shade of blue or green.

I think amber is a more a golden yellow, but I had a lump of amber resin once and it was definitely orange. I have a brown fountain pen which is labelled as amber.

In the United States an "amber alert" is an alert for a kidnapped child. It usually contains information on a vehicle that the child might be in and you're supposed to call the police if you see that vehicle. It's actually an acronym for "America's missing: broadcast emergency response." I think they used that acronym and color specifically because it's unusual and attention grabbing. We refer to traffic lights and the color as "yellow." The travel advisory level is also called "yellow." Some states also have different "color alerts" for different kinds of missing persons or emergencies. For example a "silver alert" means an elderly (generally cognitively impaired) person is missing. It's called silver because of their hair. A "blue alert" means that someone severely assaulted a police officer and took off, named after the color of the police uniform.

 It's like an orangey yellow.

Orange has yellow in it!! Amber is like a burnt orange, toward the red side of yellow.

amber is on the yellow-orange spectrum. swing by any store that sells paint & look at the sample cards. you should see a shade comparable to caution traffic light. i've always called it orange, as "slow down! that's an orange light!" i vaguely recall it being referred to as orange when i was studying the driving license manual for the written test.