What a ivory screen is used for
- A slightly softer white for reading and light-box use
- Near-neutral backgrounds for photography
- Bright fill light without pure white’s harshness
Ivory screen online: #FFFFF0 at full screen
Ivory is #FFFFF0 — red and green at maximum with blue only fractionally reduced. It is the closest named colour to white that is not white, warm by a margin most people would not notice unless the two are side by side.
That makes it useful as a light-box or dead-pixel background for anyone who finds full white uncomfortable: it is bright enough to expose faults but very slightly gentler.
How to get a full screen ivory 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.