IES files are extremely important to lighting designers—they are essentially a core tool of the profession, especially in modern projects. Every lobby, street, warehouse, and office room is designed to meet specific targets for light levels, uniformity, and glare limit where decisions were made on a computer long before any fixture ships. Those calculations are […]
Chromaticity: The Science Behind the Color of LED Light
When we talk about LED lighting, we often describe light using familiar terms such as color temperature (2700K, 3000K, 4000K, 5000K etc.) and CRI (80 CRI, 90 CRI). These specifications are important, but they don’t tell the entire story of what color a light source will actually produce. At the center of that story is […]