Idea What is sometimes called the co-Yoneda lemma or density formula is a basic fact about presheaves (a basic fact of topos theory): it says that every presheaf is a colimit of representables and more precisely that it is the “colimit over itself of all the representables contained in it”. One might think of this as related by duality to the Yoneda lemma, hence the name. Every presheaf is a colim