How does color affect heat absorbtion?
Darker colors absorb more light than lighter colors. Normally this absorbed energy is converted into heat. Therefore, darker colors will normally heat up more than lighter colors. However, there are exceptions. Absorption of energy in the ultraviolet and infrared (some of which actually is heat), also will influence how much an object heats up and it is possible for light colors to absorb a lot of energy in those wavelength regions and vice versa. Therefore the correlation between heat absorption and color is imperfect.
