They are primarily used as industrial colorants including plastics, building paints and inks.

Overall, these pigments have partially displaced the toxic cadmium yellow in the marketplace.

Painters such as Alexander Calder and Jackson Pollock are known to have employed arylide yellow in their artworks.

The initially formed diazo compound tautomerizes to give a ketohydrazone, which features extended pi-conjugation.

[2] Members of this class include: Several monoazo yellows are used as artists' pigments, frequently marketed under the names 'Hansa' or Arylide.