What a lavender screen is used for
- A soft, cool alternative to a white screen
- Gentle backgrounds for photography of pale or warm-toned objects
- Low-contrast backdrops that keep a screen readable without glare
Lavender screen online: #E6E6FA at full screen
Lavender is white with the blue channel left at maximum and red and green pulled back very slightly. The result is only a few percent away from white, which is why it works where white would be too harsh but a real colour would be too much.
It is a useful counterpart to beige: where beige warms a white field, lavender cools it. Comparing the two on the same panel is a quick way to see whether your display leans warm or cool, since one of them will look much closer to neutral than the other.
As a photographic background it flatters warm-toned subjects, giving separation without competing.
How to get a full screen lavender 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.