BackPage Primer from Environmental Building News
March 1, 2008

Shedding Light on Light Quality

It’s no wonder that confusion abounds regarding light quality. We talk about color temperature in kelvins (a temperature scale), but higher temperatures are “cooler”—how’s that? A more important property, color rendering index, tells us how accurately a light source shows off colors, but what does that mean?


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