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Does D65 Illuminant or D65 Chromaticities Produce Neutral White Appearance?
  DOI :  10.2352/CIC.2025.33.1.29  Published OnlineOctober 2025
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D65 plays a critical role in color reproduction, specification, and characterization. Displays commonly use D65 chromaticities as the white point, but many studies shown that a stimulus produced by displays having a slightly higher CCT was perceived to produce neutral white appearance. Moreover, our two recent studies found that LCD/OLED displays need to produce a stimulus having a slightly higher CCT to match the appearance of a high quality D65 illuminant that was produced by 14 channel spectrally tunable LED device. We hypothesize that a higher CCT required by displays to produce a neutral white appearance was caused by the CIE 1931 Color Matching Functions and a D65 illuminant can indeed produce a neutral white appearance. In this study, we use the 14 channel LED device to produce a series high quality daylight simulators. The observers generally selected the stimulus having a CCT between 6346 and 6906 K to have a neutral white appearance. When using an LCD display to match the color appearance of the selected stimulus, the average CCT was between 7209 and 7943 K. Such a finding supports our hypothesis and suggests the importance of color matching functions in display specification and calibration.

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Yuetong Shen, Minchen Wei, "Does D65 Illuminant or D65 Chromaticities Produce Neutral White Appearance?in Color and Imaging Conference,  2025,  pp 153 - 155,  https://doi.org/10.2352/CIC.2025.33.1.29

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