Hard light or hardlight may refer to:

• Hard and soft light in photography and filmmaking
• Hard light, an approach for computationally blending images
• A type of tactile hologram in science fiction
• Hardlight, a video game development studio acquired by Sega
• "Hardlight" (song), released in 2022 by indie rock band Spacey Jane
• Solid light, a theoretical state of light that is solid via strong interactions between photons