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White: General all around best color for our vision. Give excellent color recognition. All the rest can be considered "special purpose" lights and do not allow color recognition at all. Essentially using any of the colors below is the same as seeing things in "black and white".
Red: Night vision preservation at low lighting levels. More info here.
Amber: Focuses well in the eye and is usually a very "comfortable" monochromatic light to use
Green: Doesn't cause military night vision equipment to overload or "bloom" when used. Does NOT preserve normal human night vision despite reports otherwise.
Blue: Good for hunters following the blood trail of wounded game. The blood shows up as solid black in this light.
Cyan: Brightest of the monochromatic colors. Some people just like the look of it.
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I personally would choose either white (as low level all purpose light) or red (for night vision). Depends on what you want to use the light for.