fyrstormer
Banned
Nice example.Not every space needs to be a lit like a laboratory.
"Pure white" is in the vicinity of 6000K, but as StarHalo pointed out, not every situation calls for pure white light. Personally I prefer to stay in the range of 4500K-7500K (which is roughly the range from late-afternoon sunlight to rainy-day "cloudlight") because going outside of that range hurts my eyes if the light is being used for general illumination. Needless to say, I was not a big fan of the first generation of HID headlights, but fortunately they've gotten a lot better since then.
In situations where the ambient lighting is going to be dim, it's generally a good idea for the tint to be towards the cooler end of the spectrum, because the human eye isn't really designed to work with small amounts of yellow light and nothing else -- it is designed to work with small amounts of blue light and nothing else, but not the other way around. I've actually been in restaurants before where the lighting was so "intimate" (i.e. illuminated with nite-lite bulbs, or close to it) that I got a headache just trying to read the menu and I couldn't wait to leave. Those places were overdoing the "warm intimate lighting" effect, but within a reasonable range of brightness, warmer light is definitely more "cozy" even if not as chromatically accurate.