Fires are red/yellow. I’d imagine that’s a potential reason yellow light is “warm”
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Heres a good minutephysics video on this topic: https://youtu.be/mqZm6u12RJA
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TL;DW: Most lights used to be hot glowy things, e.g. fire, light bulbs or the sun. Those start glowing red hot at relatively low temperatures and become white hot at high temperatures. That's where the inverse scale comes from.
Uh, didnt know minutephysics had a video on this, thanks for sharing!
Look at someone who is cold, their lips are blue, someone who is hot, will be red.
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