color
luminance
Perceived amount of emitted light independent of hue.
Classification
- color
Attestation and synonyms
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- color luminance; Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, 2014
Sources (34)
395 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 5 books
Show the 34 sources
- A field guide to digital color
- apcacontrast.com
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Ciccione & Dehaene, The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling?, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2026↗
- Ciccione et al., Can Non-Human Primates Extract the Linear Trend from a Noisy Scatterplot?, iScience, 2025↗
- Ciccione, Dehaene & Dehaene, Outlier Detection and Rejection in Scatterplots, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, 2023↗
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- dataphys.org
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- git.apcacontrast.com
- gka.github.io
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information theory tools for visualization
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- sronpersonalpages.nl
- Stone, A Field Guide to Digital Color, 2003
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/luminance.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. luminance. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/luminance.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-luminance,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {luminance},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/luminance.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.