color
lightness
Position of a color between black and white.
Examples
See the figure at Andrey Sitnik, Travis Turner (Evil Martians) ↗
Classification
- color
Attestation
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
Sources (47)
430 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 4 books
Show the 47 sources
- A field guide to digital color
- alg.manifoldapp.org
- apcacontrast.com
- Beautiful evidence
- blog.datawrapper.de↗
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data sketches
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- datawrapper.de↗
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Envisioning information
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- git.apcacontrast.com
- github.com↗
- gka.github.io
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information graphics
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- Stone, A Field Guide to Digital Color, 2003
- The elements of typographic style
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- The Wall Street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting...
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualize This
- Visualizing with text
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
- Wikipedia — Data and information visualization
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/lightness.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. lightness. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/lightness.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-lightness,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {lightness},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/lightness.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.