What is the lightest color in the world?

White is the lightest possible color.
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What is the second lightest colour?

If we think about all possible color hues according to "Lab Color Space" (lightness values)L* and these colors are saturated ( pure hues without lighter shades ), yellow is the second lightest color next to white and it is also the closest color to white.
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What is the darkest or lightest of a color?

Black is the darkest shade, and the result of the absence or complete absorption of light. Like white and gray, it is an achromatic color, literally a color without hue.
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Is there a colour brighter than white?

Certain colors do not have significant effect, however, any hue of colored lights still seem brighter than white light that has the same luminance. Two colors that do not have as great of an Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect as the others are green and yellow.
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What is the lightest colour in weight?

Yellow is a lighter weight color, while blue and red are heavier. Looking at this chart created by Munsell, we can see how the weight of the color relates to values in a black to white value scale. Yellow is a naturally lighter color, while blue and red are naturally darker.
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Is white the lightest color?

White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light.
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What is the lightest color in the rainbow?

I've seen just rain rainbows, oil rainbows and wax rainbows but all of those share one property: If you convert a photo of a rainbow into black and white, you will see that the brightness difference in most of the colors seems to be unsignificant but yellow seems to be the lightest color of the spectrum.
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What color Is A Mirror?

A mirror might look silver because it's usually depicted that way in books or movies. However, it's actually the color of whatever is reflected onto it. A perfect mirror has specular reflection, meaning it reflects all light in a single direction equal to what it receives.
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Is black a color?

And many do consider black to be a color, because you combine other pigments to create it on paper. But in a technical sense, black and white are not colors, they're shades. They augment colors.
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Is grey a color?

Grey (British English) or gray (American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed of black and white. It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, of ash and of lead.
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Is light red a color?

Light red is a relatively rare color because red mixed with white is often perceived as pink or orange. However, light red does exist as reds that have a slight white tint such that they don't yet look pink.
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Is pink considered light or dark?

A light color is a tint. For example, pink is a tint of red. A dark color is called a shade.
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Does color exist without light?

Color Doesn't Exist Without Light.
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What are the 12 colours?

Learn About Colours
  • red.
  • orange.
  • yellow.
  • green.
  • blue.
  • indigo.
  • violet.
  • purple.
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Is brown a colour?

In art, brown is a colour between red and yellow and has low saturation. Brown is a basic colour term added to languages after black, white, red, yellow, green, and blue. The word brown derives from Proto-Germanic brunaz and Old High German brun.
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Is blood blue in your body?

It's red because of the red blood cells (hemoglobin). Blood does change color somewhat as oxygen is absorbed and replenished. But it doesn't change from red to blue. It changes from red to dark red.
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Is gold a color?

Gold, also called golden, is a color. The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold" (shown below).
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What two colors make white?

In the absence of light of any color, the result is black. If all three primary colors of light are mixed in equal proportions, the result is neutral (gray or white).
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What color is a water?

The water is in fact not colorless; even pure water is not colorless, but has a slight blue tint to it, best seen when looking through a long column of water. The blueness in water is not caused by the scattering of light, which is responsible for the sky being blue.
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What color is a brain?

The human brain color physically appears to be white, black, and red-pinkish while it is alive and pulsating. Images of pink brains are relative to its actual state. The brains we see in movies are detached from the blood and oxygen flow result to exhibit white, gray, or have a yellow shadow.
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What color is space?

If we add up all the light coming from galaxies (and the stars within them), and from all the clouds of gas and dust in the Universe, we'd end up with a colour very close to white, but actually a little bit 'beige'.
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Is purple a real color?

Scientifically, purple is not a color because there is no beam of pure light that looks purple. There is no light wavelength that corresponds to purple. We see purple because the human eye can't tell what's really going on.
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What is the first color?

The team of researchers discovered bright pink pigment in rocks taken from deep beneath the Sahara in Africa. The pigment was dated at 1.1 billion years old, making it the oldest color on geological record.
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Do real rainbows have purple?

There is no purple light in a rainbow. When white light splits through a prism or refracts as it passes through a raindrop, expanding in to bands of multicolored light, nothing purple comes out the other end.
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