{"id":1794,"date":"2021-06-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2021-06-28T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:34:00","slug":"avoiding-bad-display-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Bad Display Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week I was in Boston and wanted to visit the USS Constitution. The ship was closed but the visitors center was open. When I went inside and tried to read the exhibit signage, here’s what I saw:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Track lights were positioned right over the semi-gloss signs, creating terrible reflected glare. The thing is, this is so easy to avoid. In fact, someone almost has to try<\/em> to create lighting this bad. Here’s how to avoid it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Determine the location of the viewer.<\/li>
  2. Determine the viewing angle.<\/li>
  3. Determine the mirror angle.<\/li>
  4. Place lights in the concealment zone.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    Last week I was in Boston and wanted to visit the USS Constitution. The ship was closed but the visitors center was open. When I went inside and tried to read the exhibit signage, here’s what I saw: Track lights were positioned right over the semi-gloss signs, creating terrible reflected glare. The thing is, this … Continue reading Avoiding Bad Display Lighting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Avoiding bad display lighting","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-design-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-sW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":586,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=586","url_meta":{"origin":1794,"position":0},"title":"Who Needs A Lighting Designer? 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