Lemon Yellow is the third most commonly found Hostessware color (behind Apache Red and Silver Green), representing about 15-17% of known pieces found. Yellow is actually the earliest Hostessware glaze, as the company used yellow on their early 1920s stoneware line. The glaze was featured on the plainware mixing bowl sets.

Early iterations of the yellow glaze are richer and heavier than later glazes. By the time Hostessware production is in high gear, the glaze becomes lighter with a higher gloss. Hostessware yellow is lighter than Bauer and Garden City counterparts, which have more of a yellow-orange hue.

Pacific produced another yellow glaze on their artware line, called “Mustard.” This yellow glaze is a couple of shades darker than Hostessware’s “Lemon Yellow.”