This paper describes an experiment to investigate discomfort glare caused by white light-emitting diode (LED) lights having different spectral power distributions. It included two groups: a ‘Metamerism’ group and a ‘correlated colour temperatures (CCT)’ group. In the former group, it was found that white lights at 7000 K constructed from different blue LEDs and the same red and green LEDs gave about the same glare perception. In the latter group, there was a significant difference in glare perception between white lights having different CCTs. Finally, glare models, including unified glare rating (UGR) and the newly derived QUGRspd, and mUGRspd models, were tested using the data from the experiment. All of them gave quite accurate predictions of the data.
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