What is Color Temperature and Why is it Important?
LED Fixtures and bulbs are so sophisticated that it is now possible to reliably produce LED Fixtures with a specific range of color temperature.
Color temperature refers to a measurement that a specific light source gives on the Kelvin scale. LED Fixtures can be made to match a specific color temperature or sometimes fixtures can be made to meet a range of color temperatures depending on what you like the most.
In North America we are used to color temperatures that are similar to incandescent bulbs. An important frame of reference is that the typical incandescent light that most people are used to generates a ‘warm’ light that shows up at about 2700-3000 on the Kelvin scale (2700-3000K). As a result the most popular color temperature for residential LED Fixtures and LED Bulbs is Warm White.