Solid state lighting devices including light mixtures

A solid state lighting apparatus comprising:

• a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs),
• wherein chromaticities of the LEDs are selected so that a combined light generated by a mixture of light emitted of the LEDs has about a target chromaticity,
• wherein the plurality of LEDs comprises a first LED including a first LED chip that emits light in the blue portion of the visible spectrum and a first phosphor that emits red light in response to blue light emitted by the first LED chip, and
• a second LED including a second LED chip that emits light in the blue portion of the visible spectrum and that includes a second phosphor that emits yellow light in response to light emitted by the second LED chip wherein a combined light emitted by the second LED chip and the second phosphor falls outside a 10-step Macadam ellipse about a point on the planckian locus on a 1931 CIE Chromaticity diagram.

A solid state lighting apparatus comprising:

• a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) including at least a first LED and a second LED;
• wherein a combined light generated by a mixture of light from the pair of LEDs has about a target chromaticity;
• wherein the first LED includes a first LED chip that emits light in the blue or green portions of the visible spectrum and includes a phosphor that emits red light in response to light emitted by the first LED chip,
• wherein the first LED emits light that is a combination of the blue or green portions of the visible spectrum from the first LED chip and the red light emitted by the phosphor,
• wherein the combined light of the first LED chip and the phosphor has a first color point,
• wherein the second LED emits light having a second color point;
• and
• wherein a line segment on a 1931 CIE Chromaticity diagram between the first color point and the second color point crosses the planckian locus between about 2500 Kelvin and 4500 Kelvin.