Why are older lightbulbs yellow/orange and newer ones white?

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thought of this while night driving last night and seeing old cars with yellow lights and new cars with bright white lights.

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Older lightbulbs are not yellow on purpose, it’s just the nature of the filament technology.

Newer LEDs can be made to be any color, so they choose to make them white. What you see as “white” is closer to the color of natural sunlight.

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