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The perception by which objects are distinguished as white or gray and light or dark; equivalent to shading in grays, in the Munsell color order system. Lightness (also called brightness) is one dimension of the three achromatic dimensions (the others being hue and saturation) describing the three\u2010dimensional nature of color.<\/p>\n

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The perception by which objects are distinguished as white or gray and light or dark; equivalent to shading in grays, in the Munsell color order system. Lightness (also called brightness) is one dimension of the three achromatic dimensions (the others being hue and saturation) describing the three\u2010dimensional nature of color.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-l"],"yoast_head":"\nLightness - Definition of Lightness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The perception by which objects are distinguished as white or gray and light or dark; equivalent to shading in grays, in the Munsell color order system. 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