| Class | Colour | Intervall of temperature (°C) | Exemples |
| 0 | Blue | 40.000-25.000 | Zeta Puppis |
| B | Blue | 25.000-11.000 | Spica, Regulus, Rigel |
| A | White-Light Blue | 11.000-7.000 | Sirius A, Vega, Deneb |
| F | White | 7.500-6.000 | Polaris, Procyon, Canopus |
| G | White-Yellow | 6.000-5.000 | Sun, Alpha Centauri, Tau Ceti |
| K | Orange | 5.000-3.500 | Epsilon Eridani, Arcturus, Aldebran |
| M | Red | 3.500-3.000 | Antares, Betelgeuse, Bernard's star |
