Optical lens package having a lens body comprising a base, a central surface section opposite to the base, an optical axis and a peripheral surface section extending between the central surface section and the base, - said central surface section at least partly having a convex shape in at least a first cross-sectional plane including the optical axis, - wherein the central surface section is centered with respect to the optical axis of the lens package; - wherein, at the location of the transition of the peripheral surface section into the central surface section, at least a portion of said peripheral surface section has a concave shape in at least said first cross-sectional plane; - wherein, when a light source is arranged at a designated position on the optical axis, - the central surface section is configured to collimate light received from the light source at a smaller angle with respect to the optical axis than the angle of the light collected by the concave shaped portion of the peripheral surface section with respect to the optical axis, and - the concave shaped portion is configured to spread the light collected by it from the light source to increase side visibility of light emitted by the light source; - wherein the lens package is of rotationally symmetric shape or - wherein the lens package is of elliptic shape, wherein the elliptic shape is generated by having two perpendicular different defining cross-sections, both containing the optical axis and wherein the surface of the lens package is defined by an elliptical interpolation between these two defining cross-sections, - characterized in that the amount of light in the central (collimated) light bundle influenced by the convex shaped surface section is between 70% to 95% of the light in the full light bundle, and - wherein the difference in luminous intensity on axis to intensity inside the peripheral secondary bundle is in the range of 10: 1 up to 1000: 1. - said central surface section at least partly having a convex shape in at least a first cross-sectional plane including the optical axis, - wherein the central surface section is centered with respect to the optical axis of the lens package; - wherein, at the location of the transition of the peripheral surface section into the central surface section, at least a portion of said peripheral surface section has a concave shape in at least said first cross-sectional plane; - wherein, when a light source is arranged at a designated position on the optical axis, - the central surface section is configured to collimate light received from the light source at a smaller angle with respect to the optical axis than the angle of the light collected by the concave shaped portion of the peripheral surface section with respect to the optical axis, and - the concave shaped portion is configured to spread the light collected by it from the light source to increase side visibility of light emitted by the light source; - wherein the lens package is of rotationally symmetric shape or - wherein the lens package is of elliptic shape, wherein the elliptic shape is generated by having two perpendicular different defining cross-sections, both containing the optical axis and wherein the surface of the lens package is defined by an elliptical interpolation between these two defining cross-sections, - characterized in that the amount of light in the central (collimated) light bundle influenced by the convex shaped surface section is between 70% to 95% of the light in the full light bundle, and - wherein the difference in luminous intensity on axis to intensity inside the peripheral secondary bundle is in the range of 10: 1 up to 1000: 1.