Color temperature

Color temperature describes how warm or cool a white reference looks. A warmer-looking white is more reddish. A cooler-looking white is more bluish. The value is commonly expressed in kelvin (K), but it describes color, not how hot the display is. Adobe’s color-temperature explanation

In BetterDisplay, color-temperature controls change the image's color balance. A software adjustment and the monitor's own color-temperature control use different methods. They can give different results even when their names are similar.

Color temperature is also separate from Gamma and Brightness. Changing the white balance is not the same as making the whole image lighter or adjusting its middle tones.

See Image Adjustments for the related controls.