Tips Lighting and Reading!

Proper lighting in study areas is a basic requirement for relaxed and efficient reading, as it facilitates our eyes, makes us more creative and improves our mood.

Whether it's a book or computer work, the lighting in our room should have excellent color rendition, adequate brightness and be uniform to avoid eye fatigue.

• Reading in dim light. Many people believe that reading in low light can harm the eyes. According to research published in the British Medical Journal, reading with scant light does not damage the eyes, but it gets tired. 

When reading in low light (many kids want to read under the covers with a lens), your eye muscles get tangled signals. They relax to absorb as much light as possible and at the same time they grow up to be able to concentrate on the image of the book they have before them. Your eyes work harder to distinguish the words from the page and it tires the muscles. If you regularly read in low light the result will be itchy eyes, headaches, neck pain, blurred vision, and dry eyes. Of course, symptoms will subside by stopping this "bad" habit.

• The usual mistake you make. Many people use very bright light in a dark room and this is another reason why the eyes are easily tired.

Contradictions in general in terms of lighting are not good.

Illumination also relates to age. Scientists emphasize how much light you need is also related to your age.

Specifically, the light that every person needs to read is increased by 1% every year. So if there are people of different ages in the house, you may need extra lights or stronger lamps for older people.

• Equally important is the quality of light. 

As a general rule, we could use that the ideal color for reading light is white and cold light (color rendering) from 4000K to 6500K), while lighting performance should be around 500LM.

• In addition, it must be flexible and include several light sources, as well as natural light - where possible.
• If you are right-handed, the light should come from the left to avoid shadows. For left-handed people the opposite is true.
• Choose products that produce full spectrum lighting that approaches the natural (daytime environment), and helps reduce eye fatigue during reading.
• A desktop desk lamp provides extra light on the desktop.

Insert it so that it is not displayed on the computer screen.

• The glass should be positioned where the shadows of the hand will not enter your desktop.

If you are right-handed, place the light source on the left-hand side of your desk.

• When choosing office luggage, make sure that the arm is long enough and flexible to brighten up wherever you need, with the option of removing it from the waist when it is not needed.
• If you do not want to fill your precious office space with a desk lamp, choose another type of luminaire (such as a floor lamp) that will be able to focus on the areas you want.
• We do not forget that our goal must be a uniform lighting intensity in the room, because fluctuations cause intense eye strain.
• Finally, we must not forget the issue of energy saving.

That's why we prefer LED lamps that reduce consumption, have a long life, and do not emit heat like shared lamps for reading. 

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