---
title: "Lighten Color"
description: "Demonstrates how to use the lighten method to increase the lightness of a Phaser Color object by a specific percentage."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "800x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color/view/lighten
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Lighten Color

Demonstrates how to use the lighten method to increase the lightness of a Phaser Color object by a specific percentage.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Display / Color](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color.md). It runs at 800 × 600, and loads its assets from https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410. See it running, with its code, at https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color/view/lighten.

To run it, load Phaser 4.1.0 (`https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/phaser@4.1.0/dist/phaser.min.js`), then the file, on a page with a `<div id="game-container">`.

## Code

### lighten.js

```js
class Example extends Phaser.Scene
{
    constructor ()
    {
        super();
    }
    create ()
    {
        const color1 = new Phaser.Display.Color(100, 0, 0);
        const color2 = new Phaser.Display.Color(100, 0, 0);

        const rect1 = this.add.rectangle(200, 300, 200, 400, color1.color);
        const rect2 = this.add.rectangle(420, 300, 200, 400, color2.color);

        this.input.on('pointerup', function () {

            //  lighten the color by 10%
            color2.lighten(10);

            rect2.setFillStyle(color2.color);

        });
    }
}

const config = {
    scale: { mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT },
    type: Phaser.AUTO,
    parent: 'game-container',
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    scene: Example
};

const game = new Phaser.Game(config);
```

## More in Color

- [Brighten Color](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color/view/brighten.md): Demonstrates how to use the brighten method on a Color object to increase its brightness by a percentage value.
- [Convert RGB Strings to Color Objects](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color/view/rgb-to-color.md): Demonstrates how to parse CSS-style RGB and RGBA strings into Phaser Color objects, including handling of alpha channels and out-of-range values.
- [Convert Value to Color](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color/view/integer-to-color.md): Demonstrates how to use Phaser.Display.Color.ValueToColor to convert various color formats—including hex numbers, hex strings, and CSS RGB strings—into Phaser Color objects.
- [Darken Color](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color/view/darken.md): Demonstrates how to use the darken method of the Color object to decrease the lightness of a color by a specific percentage on each interaction.
- [Hex String to Color](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color/view/hex-to-color.md): Demonstrates how to convert CSS-style hexadecimal strings, in both 3-digit and 6-digit formats, into Phaser Color objects.
- [Interpolate Color RGB vs HSV](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color/view/interpolate-color-rgb-vs-hsv.md): Compare different color interpolation methods, showing the visual difference between standard RGB blending and HSV-based transitions that preserve saturation and value.
- [Random Color](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color/view/random-color.md): Demonstrates how to generate random colors with a minimum brightness threshold using the Phaser Color object.
- [Random Gray](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/display/color/view/random-gray.md): Demonstrates how to generate random grayscale colors with a specified minimum brightness threshold.

---

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