An outdoor post light is a pedestrian scale lighting fixture that is designed to deliver functional illumination and architectural blending. Post lights lend a daytime appeal to a landscape while providing a spread of light for safety, security or landscape accent at night. They integrate the luminaire into a post, or have an arm mount or post-top mount luminaire, bringing an organic look into the environment. The post/pole is critical to the ultimate aesthetic success of the light fixture. Elements such as luminaire arrangement/size, fixture height, arm length, post diameter or cross-section size can visually impact scale. Post lights are a distinct category of outdoor light fixtures in that they infuse a balance of style, light, scale and detail to help create a certain ambience while complementing the architecture of surrounding structures.
Outdoor post lights cover an extensive range of products that have varied characteristics such as styles, sizes, scales, configurations, and optical designs. The characteristics of post lights are dictated by where the fixtures are installed, how much illumination is needed and how that light is to be delivered to the area being lit. Post lights find their footprint in a variety of outdoor sites which include downtown streets, urban sidewalks, town or village streets, driveways, walkways, pathways, residential neighborhoods, parking areas, commercial plazas, parks, squares, gardens, campuses, and boulevards. Regardless of whether the application has a contemporary character, demands a transitional appeal, or is decidedly traditional, post lights provide the versatility of form necessary to complement the appearance of surrounding environments.
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