Most bulbs I have tried put out a drungy yellowish glow....
I buy incandescent daylight type bulbs which are pricey already.
Looking to lower my carbon foot print when my dining room light showed over 200 degrees F when I had an energy survey a couple days ago, but damn the lighting is nice.
as other says u need to look at the color index.
The druggy yellow bulbs are near the lower end close to the red spectrum, and the daylight is towards the higher Ultra Violet side.
4100K is considered white, and if you want to get really technical... true daylight bulbs can only be found in a fish store labeled as 10k.
But 4100K for white, 5000K+ for a slight bluish white... and if u have salt water corals and need true daylight 10,000K @ a fish store.
Ah found a nice little chart:
# Candle: 1700k 100 CRI
# High Pressure Sodium: 2100k 25 CRI
# Incandescent: 2700k 100 CRI
# Tungsten Halogen: 3200k 95 CRI
# *Solux Bulb: 4100k 98 CRI
# Cool White: 4200k 62 CRI
# *Ott-Lite™ Pro: 5000k 82 CRI
# Clear Metal Halide: 5500k 60 CRI
# *Verilux® "Natural Spectrum®": 5500k 82 CRI (also called HappyEyes® and Trucolite Phosphor Technology™
# Natural Sunlight: 5000-6000k 100 CRI
# *BlueMax™: 5900k 96 CRI
# Daylight Bulb: 6400k 80 CRI
# *Sharper Image Bright as Day™ Lamp: 6400k 80 CRI (also called "wide-spectrum","daylight spectrum","natural spectrum")
# *NextTen SunWhite® Lamp: 6400k 82 CRI
# *Bell&Howell Sunlight Lamp: 6500k 80-85 CRI
# *FirstStreet Balanced Spectrum®: 6500k 84 CRI
Lastly.. a 60W CCFL is a VERY BIG CCFL.
I think your thinking in more terms of 14W which is about = to 60W incandescent.
Not common for uses in home, but once again more in terms of fish tanks.
CCFL's use a fraction of power of what a typical incandescent light bulb will use, so like a 25W CCFL can simulate 120W of incandescent.