You can make your colormap using the RGB color code values. Check the below example.
y = [255 255 0]/255 ; % yello RGB value
w = [255 255 255]/255 ; % white RGB value
n = 10 ; % number of variations, can be changed
cmap = [linspace(w(1),y(1),n)' linspace(w(2),y(2),n)' linspace(w(3),y(3),n)'] ;
% USe colormap
Z = peaks(100) ;
surf(Z)
shading interp
colormap(cmap)
colorbar