To achieve the a warm color appearance, the light should be chosen with a low correlated color temperature.
To achieve the maximum
quantity of various colors, vividly rendered under the light, the light should be chosen with a high color rendering capacity (CRC).
References
- Color rendering property of interest: How closely the color appearances of colored samples lit by a given light resemble those of the same samples lit by a reference Plank radiator.
- Measure relevant to its appraisal: CIE Color Rendering Index (CRI), see CIE Publication 13.3. Method of measuring & specifying colour rendering properties of light sources. CIE,1995.
- Color rendering property of interest: How different the color appearances of eight colored samples lit by a given light look in comparision with each other.
- Measure relevant to its appraisal: Color Discrimination Index (CDI), see Thornton WA. Colour discrimination index. J.Opt.Soc.Am. 1972,62,191-194.
- Color rendering property of interest: How large a set of colors can be generated from the unique set of all possible spectral reflectances lit by a given light.
- Measure relevant to its appraisal: Color Rendering Capacity (CRC),see Xu H. Colour rendering capacity and luminous efficiency of a spectrum. Lighting Res. Technol. 1993,25,131-132
