Lumileds Blog

When you were young and learning to draw, were you one of the tikes who kept reaching into the crayon box to pull out the next color, working it onto a white page to see how it looked, blending and playing colors off one another or pressing hard then soft to see different effects? It is the same with LED lighting today. More options are better. In defining every color of the rainbow, like different flavors of ice cream, designers want more color choices to create more opportunities for great satiation.

The market for lighting products and lighting schemes is all about choice, variety and personalization. And the foundation for choice is laid by the light source – the LED. If there were only ever one, standard, uniform light source, the scope for differentiating the luminaire with optics, electronic controls or reflectors would be extremely limited. In fact, the primary focus of leading LED manufacturers’ investments today is on innovations which enable new lighting concepts and more choice to enable the industry to respond better to users’ different preferences.

Over the last twenty years, we’ve been party to an evolving discussion about light from LEDs. Most conversations center around light output and quality of light. In both cases, performance needs and requirements have spurred a continuum of innovation.