Why Red LEDs on Non RGB peripherals?

[mbryant]

I know other keyboards and mice offer different single color LEDs but most of what I see is red. I was needing to replace my keyboard a few weeks ago and I wanted backlighting because I work in the dark. I didn't want to spend a fortune on an RGB mech keyboard but I ended up going with the Korsair k65 simply because it was RGB not just red. 

Just a gripe I had 

[Guest]

Because for manufacturer red is the best color but we all know in reality blue is king

[brighttail]

Red is also the easiest and cheapest to produce.

[Apollo Refugio]

1 minute ago, brighttail said:

Red is also the easiest and cheapest to produce.

is it really? its even cheaper than white backlit?

[mbryant]

2 hours ago, brighttail said:

Red is also the easiest and cheapest to produce.

why would it be cheaper than blue though? Or even green 

[pagani123]

its all on the manufacturer to decide, asus usually uses red corsair depends on the keyboard and series and razer uses green 

[Guest]

Just now, Maybach123 said:

its all on the manufacturer to decide, asus usually uses red corsair (im not sure) and razer uses green 

ASUS red

Razer green

Logitech blue

 

[mbryant]

2 hours ago, Maybach123 said:

its all on the manufacturer to decide, asus usually uses red corsair (im not sure) and razer uses green 

I guess my point was, on single LED color keyboards I mostly see red, obviously I've seen Razer's green but christ alive, why aren't there any blues? For whatever reason manufacturers seem to think "red = aggressive = awesome gaming performance" 

[Apollo Refugio]

Just now, mbryant said:

I guess my point was, on single LED color keyboards I mostly see red, obviously I've seen Razer's green but christ alive, why aren't there any blues? For whatever reason manufacturers seem to think "red = aggressive = awesome gaming performance" 

they make blue LED too, k70, steelseries, some logitech

[Ryoutarou97]

2 minutes ago, mbryant said:

why would it be cheaper than blue though? Or even green 

If more people buy red then more red will be produced and price will drop b/c economies of scale, but I doubt that's the reason. I think it's more along the lines of the answer above me:

Just now, mbryant said:

For whatever reason manufacturers consumers seem to think "red = aggressive = awesome gaming performance" 

 

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, mbryant said:

I guess my point was, on single LED color keyboards I mostly see red, obviously I've seen Razer's green but christ alive, why aren't there any blues? For whatever reason manufacturers seem to think "red = aggressive = awesome gaming performance" 

HAVE YOU SEEN LOGITECH

[pagani123]

5 minutes ago, mbryant said:

I guess my point was, on single LED color keyboards I mostly see red, obviously I've seen Razer's green but christ alive, why aren't there any blues? For whatever reason manufacturers seem to think "red = aggressive = awesome gaming performance" 

yeah I am kind of stuck with the red color from the parts I bought (asus rampage iv black edition and asus rog swift) but I like the red and black color scheme as long as it doesn't look cheap.