Recently, solid state lighting plays as an important role in a novel colorimetric instrumentation. LEDs are being further evaluated as one of the possible standard light sources. In this work, an innovative tunable daylight simulator is developed, which mainly consists of only few LEDs plus one special designed optical thin- film filter with fixed transmission spectrum. This tunable daylight simulator does simulate daylight of correlated color temperature (CCT) ranged widely from 4,000K to 10,000K. The design and the experimental measurement will be reported in details.