LED Lighting: Seeing Through Rose-Colored Glasses?

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Wojciechowska, Iza

• Last year, “the dress” took the world by storm as people puzzled over whether it was blue-and-black or white-and-gold—and over how such a discrepancy about a seemingly objective article of clothing was even possible.
  The photo brought issues of color perception and color rendering out of the labs and lightboxes and into the public consciousness for a couple of weeks. However, the fact is that color perception is a major issue facing the textile
  industry all the time. For example, buying an olive green shirt in a store only to realize that it looks brown outside is not an uncommon experience for consumers, and it’s one that textile manufacturers, retailers, designers, and light scientists continuously work together to solve. Understanding how colors render across materials, in stores, and under different lights is instrumental to producing and selling textile products properly. These issues, however, have become even trickier in recent years as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have gained in popularity. Despite LEDs’ advantages, they make colors difficult to match and manage for a number of reasons. Since LEDs have now become the light source of choice for most retail stores around the world, the issue of color perception has also been, well, cast into the spotlight.

• Date created

  2016-12-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Chemistry
  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-mgkx-g542

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