The color temperature of a light, measured in kelvins, is its most noticeable characteristic. A candle, at 1900 K, appears orange. Daylight, at 5500 K, is much whiter and bluer. A 5500-K bulb, however ...
These four examples show (a) the best fit (blue solid line) to daylight D65, (b) an incandescent spectrum, (c) the melanopic, and (d) a white LED spectrum (Ph-LED YAG) (dashed black lines) made by ...