What a amber screen is used for
- Warm, low-blue screen light for evening work
- Recreating the look of an amber monochrome monitor
- Warm fill light that reads richer than plain yellow
Amber screen online: #FFBF00 at full screen
Amber was one of the two standard monochrome monitor phosphors, alongside green. It was widely believed to cause less eye strain than green or white, which is why so many terminals through the 1980s glowed this colour. #FFBF00 is close to what those P3 phosphors produced.
It is also a strong choice for evening screen light. Amber emits very little short-wavelength blue, so it does less to suppress melatonin than a white screen at the same brightness, and it is warmer and less clinical than plain yellow.
How to get a full screen amber background
Press the fullscreen button on the player above, or the F key. Escape returns you to the page. On a desktop browser F11 does the same job and hides the browser's own toolbars as well.
The colour box is a control, not a picture: use the hex field to enter any value, pick another shade from the palette, or download the current colour as a PNG at your screen's resolution. Whatever you set is written into the address bar, so the link you copy reproduces exactly what you are looking at.