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Blue Light Filter

A warm full-screen field with adjustable colour temperature, from candlelight at 1500K up to daylight at 6500K.

Press F for fullscreen, Esc to exit.

What the blue light filter shows

Worth being straight about first: a web page can only change what it draws. This warms this page and nothing else. A real blue light filter works at the display or operating system level — Night Shift on Apple devices, Night Light on Windows and Android, Redshift or f.lux elsewhere — and those are what you want if the goal is to warm everything you look at.

What this is good for is a warm field: a second monitor used as a soft light in the evening, a warm background to read against, or a way to see what a given colour temperature actually looks like before setting it system-wide.

Choosing a colour temperature

Around 6500K is daylight and is what most content is authored for. 4000K is a warm office light. 3000K is a domestic bulb and is the usual evening setting. Below 2000K is candlelight, which is dramatic and hard to read against.

The values come from a black-body approximation, so they line up with what the same number means on a light bulb or in a camera’s white balance.

What this test cannot tell you

This filters nothing outside this page. For a system-wide filter use Night Shift, Night Light, or f.lux. The evidence that blue light filtering improves sleep is also weaker than the marketing suggests — reducing overall brightness in the evening appears to matter more than shifting the colour.

Questions

Does this filter blue light on my whole screen?

No. A web page can only change its own pixels. For everything on the display, use Night Shift, Night Light, or f.lux at the operating system level. This page is a warm field, which is useful for lighting and for reading but is not a system filter.

What colour temperature should I use in the evening?

Around 3000K matches a domestic bulb and is the usual choice. Below 2000K is candlelight — striking, but hard to read against. Lowering brightness generally does more than shifting colour.

Does blue light filtering actually help sleep?

The evidence is weaker than the marketing implies. Overall screen brightness in the hours before bed appears to matter more than the colour. Warmer is more comfortable to look at in a dark room, which is a decent reason on its own.

Is the blue light filter free?

Yes — free, with no account, no download and no limit. It is a web page, so it runs on any device with a modern browser.

Do I need to be fullscreen?

For anything involving the whole panel, yes. Press F, or the fullscreen button. On a desktop browser F11 also hides the browser toolbars, which matters for the tests where a bright strip at the top of the screen would affect what you are looking at.