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	title of this thread your message Ok Brandon, pour your favorite libation and read on... First, warm and cool light is a function of the gas and or metal filament used in the bulbs. Sadly, fluorescent light is very blue and rather harsh/cold. Most incandescent filament bulbs use tungsten and that's got a warm tone as the filament actually generates as more heat than it does light. The word 'incandescence' actually means light produced from heat generation. GE Reveal bulbs kind of combine both concepts. GE put a blue coating on the glass but it's still a tungsten filament. So the warm incandescent filament is tempered by the cool blue coating producing an overall effect of a whiter, more 'sun-like' light. But don't be fooled GE Reveal bulbs are not more efficient on energy usage than standard incandescents. CFLs are much more efficient on energy usage but the light is 'flatter' and cooler in tone and most people don't like that. The wonderful Ingo Maurer said that CFL light was 'dead' and it does kind of make people look that way. That's because people come in warm tones we don't reflect the cool light very flateringly and tend to look sickly and washed out under fluorescent light. Pleople also complain that CFLs are slow to reach full intensity and that they flicker. That second problem has been largely dealt with. CFLs used to oscillate along with AC power at 60Hz, but most bulbs have a capacitor in them to stop that happening now-a-days. But the time to full intensity is still an issue. So what's a design conscious, green-thinking DA'er to do? Here's my professional suggestions;-) associated web images (optional) associated web link (optional) your email your password create a forums account \| you forgot your password?