The amount and quality of light shapes mood and atmosphere and evokes feelings, associations, and memories; it can also hide or reveal things, secrets sometimes better left undisturbed…
Light and Dark Menu
- fire, flame, illumination, luminaire, fixture, instrument, bulb
- glow, flicker, shimmer, shine,
- radiance, brilliance, burning, flash,
- candle, taper, tallow stick, wick, candelabra, tea light,
- torch, pole torch, burning oil, pitch, tar
- lantern, bullseye lantern, baffled lantern, ship’s lantern, miner’s lamp, Argand lamp, gravity lamp (link to Lights menu in Stuff)
- chandelier, lamp, clay oil lamp, floor lamp, wall sconce, table lamp, crystal lamp, bronze oil lamp
- lights can be:
- hung, held, rigged, battoned, baffled,
- softened, reflected,
- streetlamp, light post, light pole, washlight,
- bonfire, firepit, embers, hearth, fireplace, coals, campfire,
- pyre, watchfire, signal light, flare, warning sign,
- sulphur & lime, whale oil, coal oil, pitch,
- directional light, spotlight, focal light,
- lightning, sheet lightning, streak, bolt, branch, snap, flash, sparkle, dance,
- sunlight, moonlight, starlight, sunset, sunrise, night black, midnight black, eclipse,
- daylight, haze, overcast, bright, sunny,
- moonlight, quarter moon, gibbous moon, half moon, waning, waxing, crescent moon, double moon, blue moon
- cold, cool, warm, blue, red, white, black, tawny,
- pitch black sparkly smoky fading waxing waning receding approaching
- falling rising intense weak streaky shadow back light flame flickering strong strobing blue red grey yellow
- filtered, blocked, deep, shallow, winsome, growing, shrinking, distant,
- pinpoint, focused, blinding, radiant, overhead,
- fractured golden sliver finger white light blackness blackout jet black dazzling muted bland lifeless
- illuminating gleaming shiny radiant lustrous blazing glaring floodlight soft pale harsh garish dull blurred
- magical,
- ray, beam ,effulgence,
- twilight, dusk, dawn,
- natural, artificial,
- sickly, pale, wan, fading, pallid, gray, dim, faint, weak, feeble,
- monochrome, colorful
- obscured, clear, clean, pastel, neon, metallic, subtle, blanched, insipid, flat, dynamic, drab, anemic,
- gentle, harsh, dazzling, fabulous, prismatic, chromatic, mesmerizing, wispy,
- eternal flame, everlasting fire,
- tungsten, flourescent,
- flashlight, flashbulb,
- slanted, diffused, tired, energetic, feeble, delicate, subdued, vigorous, robust, powerful, obscured,
- refracted, corrupted, bent, twisted,
- enduring, dim, bright, filtered, mottled, speckled, iridescent, faint, reflected, brilliant, hazy, murky, translucent, lackluster, dry,
- night time, midnight, the witching hour,
Notes
- measures of light: foot candles, lux, lumens, Kelvin
- symbolism of light: life, hope, future, youth, energy, positivity, endurance,
- symbolism of darkness: serenity, the end, hopelessness, peace, the unknown, fear, death