not a bright color like yellow, and if a family beach, trunks with an liner, and if I was sportin a chub I would re-arrange the swim trunks by pullling the waist band, like your making a waist adjustment, but you are really trying to get the material off your meat. I think every healthy male that goes to the beach gets a chub, and those first few seconds when you come out of the water can give a female on the prowl a good glimpse what you are packing.