Glass ceramic with reduced lithium content

A method for producing a glass ceramic, comprising:

• melting raw material components at a temperature from 1500 to 1700° C. to provide a green glass melt, wherein the raw material components comprise 3.0 to 3.6 percent by weight of lithium oxide (Li2O) and a colorant that is either 0.003 to 0.05 percent by weight of vanadium oxide (V2O5) or 0.003 to 0.25 percent by weight of molybdenum oxide (MoO3);
• refining the green glass melt;
• hot forming the green glass melt into a glass ceramic panel at a viscosity of 104 dPa·s and at a temperature of less than 1350° C., wherein a margin between the temperature and an upper devitrification temperature is between 20 and 100° C.;
• and
• ceramizing at a pace and at a temperature to avoid conversion of high-quartz solid solution into keatite solid solution so that high-quartz solid solution is a main crystal phase and so that the glass ceramic panel has a thermal expansion of −1 to +1 ppm/K in a range from 20° C. to 700° C.