Lightfast vs Lightfastness - What's the difference?
lightfast | lightfastness |
Resistant to fading.
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As an adjective lightfast
is resistant to fading.As a noun lightfastness is
the quality of being lightfast.lightfast
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Verdigris is lightfast in oil paint, as numerous examples of fifteenth-century paintings show.
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- Some ink-and-paper combinations are more lightfast than others, and the resulting prints are more fade-resistant.
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- Tara, a gallotannin, is often quoted as being the most lightfast vegetable tannin and makes very pale coloured leather.
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- The blue, or cyan, is the most lightfast ink used in the printing process, so it lasts the longest. That blue, incidentally, is the phthalocyanine blue pigment.
- You can easily test to determine whether any material is lightfast .