Color Rendering Index / CRI

A 0 to 100 score for how truthfully a light source shows the real colors of what it lights.

Color Rendering Index, or CRI, is a scale from 0 to 100 that measures how accurately a light source reveals the true colors of the objects it illuminates compared to natural daylight. A high-CRI lamp above 90 makes green foliage, red brick, and natural stone look rich and lifelike, while a low-CRI source can leave the same surfaces looking gray, washed out, or oddly tinted. In landscape lighting this matters enormously, because the whole point is to flatter plants and architecture after dark. We specify high-CRI LEDs so your garden looks as vivid at night as it does at noon, with no muddy or unnatural cast across leaves and masonry.

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