highkey
SayHY-keeUS/ˈhaɪˌki/UK/ˈhaɪˌkiː/
- 1Alternative form of high-key.
The portrait studio shot everything in a highkey style, flooding the set with even, diffuse light.
Editors chose a highkey aesthetic for the brand, all pale tones and almost no shadow.
Note
A closed-up spelling of the lighting term. It compares with more and most rather than taking -er: more highkey, most highkey. Applied to pictures, it means pale tones throughout with little or no shadow. The hyphenated form also has a colloquial adverb use meaning "conspicuously," so the setting tells you which is meant: a studio's brightness or a speaker's emphasis.
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