Which term describes color property corresponding to lightness or brightness?

• A. Hue
• B. Lightness/ brightness
• C. Saturation
• D. Chroma

Answer: (B)

Lightness, often called brightness, is the color property that describes how light or dark a color appears. This attribute is separate from hue, which identifies the color family (red, blue, green), and from saturation (or chroma), which describes how vivid or pure the color is. When you adjust lightness, you change how pale or deep the color looks without changing its hue, which is exactly what lightness/brightness captures. For example, the same hue can look pale and light or dark and rich just by changing its lightness. So the term that describes color property corresponding to lightness or brightness is lightness (often referred to as brightness).