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Solid Colour Screens

A full-screen block of one flat colour, running in the browser. Useful for testing a display, lighting a face on a video call, chroma keying, or covering a screen while you step away.

Which colour screen do you need?

For testing a display, work through white, black and mid grey first: white exposes dead pixels, black exposes backlight bleed, and grey exposes uniformity problems the other two hide. Then run red, green and blue in turn to check each subpixel channel on its own.

For lighting a video call, start with white and warm it with peach, coral or orange until skin stops reading blue. For chroma key, use the green screen page — the softer greens here are too desaturated to cut cleanly.

If the shade you want is not listed, the custom colour screen takes any hex code and keeps it in the URL, so you can bookmark or share the exact colour.

Questions

How do I get a full screen colour?

Open the colour you want from the grid above and press F, or click the fullscreen button on the screen itself. The whole display fills with that one flat colour and every bit of interface disappears. Escape brings the page back. Nothing is installed and nothing changes on your computer — it is one web page showing one colour.

Can I use a specific hex code?

Yes. The custom colour screen takes any hex value, RGB triplet or colour name and fills the screen with it. The value is written into the address bar, so the exact shade becomes a link you can bookmark, share or reopen later on a different machine.

Which colour screen should I use to test a monitor?

White first, for dead pixels and dust. Then black, for backlight bleed and stuck pixels. Then mid grey, which is the only one that shows uniformity problems clearly. After that run pure red, green and blue in turn — each lights one subpixel channel on its own, so a channel that has failed shows up as a black dot on a field of colour.

Why would I want a solid colour screen?

The common reasons are testing a display, lighting a face on a video call, chroma keying a green or blue background, calibrating another screen against a known colour, using a phone as a coloured photography gel, and covering a monitor with a blank screen while you step away from it.

Does a black screen save battery?

On an OLED or AMOLED display, yes — black pixels are switched off entirely, so a black screen draws measurably less power. On an ordinary LCD it makes almost no difference, because the backlight stays on at the same brightness regardless of what colour the pixels in front of it are showing.

Can I download the colour as an image?

Yes. Each colour screen has a download button that saves a PNG at your display's resolution, which is useful as a desktop background, a video call backdrop or a test file to open in something else.

Is it free, and do I need an account?

It is free with no account, no signup, no trial and no limit on how long you leave a screen open. There is nothing to install and nothing to pay for.