Color rendering index (CRI) goes hand in hand with color temperature when you’re trying to pick the right lighting for your application.
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Does reading a light bulb part number make your eyes want to cross or glaze over?
Just like languages, some light part numbers can be extremely hard to translate and understand. It doesn’t help that each manufacturer speaks a different dialect.
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Topics: Lighting 101, CRI, Fluorescent light
Our lighting designers answer countless questions when it comes to helping their customers understand light color and quality. Lighting Design Manager, Tori Cole, is here to help simplify some of the complexity around design, color quality, and LED lighting. Follow along as she answers some of the most common questions.
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Topics: Lighting design, CRI, Color temperature, Fluorescent light, Incandescent lighting
This is the second post in our series on choosing the right color characteristics for your lighting project. Last time we addressed color temperature, but maybe the most critical issue — which has surfaced with the popularity of LED lighting — is color consistency. How do you know that the color of your lighting will be consistent from one product to another? Let’s dive in.
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Topics: Lighting design, LED, Lighting maintenance, CRI, Color temperature
If you're responsible for determining the right ambiance and light quality of your application, then you probably already know how important understanding Color Rendering Index (CRI) and Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) is.
Here's the problem: CRI and CCT are anything but easy to understand.
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Topics: Lighting design, Restaurant Lighting, Retail Lighting, CRI, Hospital lighting, Color temperature
Our lighting designers are frequently asked about color temperature and CRI. How important are these measurements to your lighting product decisions?
With the emergence of LED lighting, the options have become almost limitless, so selecting the perfect color for your application can turn into an overwhelming endeavor.
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Topics: Lighting design, LED, CRI, Color temperature
