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How to choose the right CRI for your lighting: A practical guide to Color Rendering Index

Posted by Jeremy Ames on Jan 3, 2020 1:00:00 PM
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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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Topics: Lighting design, CRI

Answering your questions on light color and quality [Ask the expert series]

Posted by Tori Cole on Jun 5, 2018 11:37:00 AM
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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

Preparing your store for a sale or an important executive visit? Here are 3 retail lighting tips

Posted by Cameron Craig on Sep 15, 2017 9:35:00 AM
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When big shopping holidays like Black Friday and back-to-school shopping hit the retail world, it all too often means stores everywhere are scrambling to get the lighting right.

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Topics: Lighting design, Lighting maintenance, Retail Lighting, Project Management

6 of the most common retail lighting design mistakes

Posted by Jeremy Johnston on Jul 31, 2017 11:40:00 AM
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Lighting is one of those things that can be easily taken for granted. It’s sort of like cell phone service or drinking water – it’s not something most people pay attention to unless it’s off. 

Just like cellular networks and purified drinking water, details matter in lighting. Ensuring a cell signal isn’t spotty or that the total dissolved soluble content of water is palatable is a science. And it’s pretty easy to mess up.

With lighting, mistakes rarely go unnoticed. And even the less-noticed ones can have a trickle-down effect on sales.

The job of the lighting designer is to help you avoid such oversights, ensuring your lighting is sharp, consistent, and right for your brand.

In that spirit, here are the most common mistakes our team sees in retail lighting design:

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Topics: Lighting design, Retail Lighting

What is R9 color rendering value?

Posted by Erin Gussert on Jun 6, 2017 9:09:00 AM
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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

How to aim your accent lighting: A step-by-step guide

Posted by Tori Cole on May 16, 2017 11:30:00 AM
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Properly aimed lighting is one of the most important, yet easily overlooked aspects of great retail design. Done correctly, it will accent the merchandise you want to sell and lead your customers through your store. Check out this step-by-step guide on aiming to make your store attractive to customers. 

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Topics: Lighting design, Restaurant Lighting, Retail Lighting, Hotel lighting

Who should use Regency's LED Buying Guide?

Posted by Jules Tompkins on Apr 18, 2017 3:55:59 PM
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Last year, we published our first-ever LED Buying Guide. We say over and over again around here that our goal is to make lighting easier for our customers, and the LED Buying Guide was published with that objective in mind. 

The lighting world has undergone rapid changes over the last decade with the emergence and proliferation of light emitting diode (LED) lighting technology. Just seven years ago, in 2010, less than 10 manufacturers made up 90 percent of the lighting market. Last year, that market share was spread between more than 400 manufacturers, each with its own fluid, iterative product line.

That's a lot to keep up with.

So, how do we make things easier for you?

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Topics: Lighting design, Restaurant Lighting, Lighting maintenance, Energy efficiency, Retail Lighting

How lighting subconsciously affects your customers

Posted by Aletheia Cyr on Mar 7, 2017 10:10:00 AM
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About a year ago, I was on a Costco run, but was turned away when I arrived. It was the middle of the day and the whole store was shut down. 

Care to guess why?

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Topics: Lighting design, Restaurant Lighting, Movie theater lighting, Retail Lighting, Hotel lighting

Regency helps 500+ TUMI stores with exceptional lighting design

Posted by Brittany Woodard on Nov 3, 2016 3:45:00 PM
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In the retail industry, high quality lighting is one area that can go overlooked or deemed superfluous. Glenn Trunley of TUMI knows the importance of high quality lighting and the benefit that it can bring to accomplishing store design goals. 

Regency recently partnered with TUMI to bring specification consistency, standout design, and tailored budgetary solutions for an international rollout. 

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Topics: Lighting design, Retail Lighting

Guide to Correlated Color Temperature and Color Rendering Index e-book

Posted by Brent Shelly on Jun 8, 2016 9:20:00 AM
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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

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