How do I find the hex code for that kind of light public transit busses use at night thats sort of purplish white?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 20 Mar 12:49
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Its less harsh than the normal fluorescebr lights, i think its supposed to be more of a glow than hard lighting. It might actually be LED but its sort of purpley-bluish white but dimmer and less harsh

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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 13:21 next collapse

Are you seeing this:

hackaday.com/…/white-led-turning-purple-analyzing…

The article might help reproduce the color because it’s a failure of yellow phosphorus.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 13:22 collapse

You’re right, most are blue-pumped (450nm), but there are some manufacturers pushing violet-pumped (405nm) leds. The rationale is to reduce the blue peak in the spectrum which allegedly improves color rendering and is more pleasant to the eye.

One of the commenters said this, sehr interessant

lvxferre@mander.xyz on 20 Mar 18:09 collapse

Try something like #ECD9F7; or if too purplish, #F9F2FC.

How I got those values: the other comment mentioned 405nm light. I threw the value into this site to convert it into an RGB value, and got (130, 0, 200). Then I threw that RGB value into this colour blending site, blended it with white (#FFFFFF). The values were too saturated, so I picked some intermediate value and blended it again with white.