59LIGHTNESS
Lightness is one of the three main attributes of color and describes the extent to which an object or light source appears to reflect or emit more or less light
Lightness, also known as value, is a relative perception. Chromatically neutral objects that appear to emit a lot of light compared with other objects will likely appear white, and those that appear to emit little light compared with other objects will likely appear black.
The scale from black through gray to white is called an achromatic scale. Black is not strictly the absence of light, though objects that emit or reflect no light will almost certainly appear black. However, ...
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