Indoor products may be subjected to a wide range of interior lighting environments. These environments include residential incandescent, commercial fluorescent, and industrial metal halide illuminants. Products may also be exposed to sunlight coming through a window or an automobile windshield. Each of these light sources has its own unique spectrum. In a like manner, each material has its own unique spectral sensitivity. This paper surveys a wide variety of the most commonly used indoor light sources, including direct and indirect window-filtered sunlight. The results indicate that direct window-filtered sunlight is the most severe interior lighting condition that your product will probably see. Because a xenon arc test chamber can provide an excellent simulation of sunlight through window glass, it is the best method of simulating this worst-case indoor lighting environment for testing the light stability of your product.
Jeffery Quill, Greg Fedor, Patrick Brennan, Eric Everett, "Quantifying the Indoor Light Environment: Testing for Light Stability in Retail and Residential Environments" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP20), 2004, pp 689 - 698, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2004.20.1.art00037_2