What a periwinkle screen is used for
- Very soft cool backgrounds for photography
- A gentle alternative to white with a cool cast
- Calm ambient screen light
Periwinkle screen online: #CCCCFF at full screen
Periwinkle is #CCCCFF — blue at maximum with red and green both at 80%, producing a pale blue-violet that sits close to white. It is a slightly bluer, more purple counterpart to lavender.
Like lavender, its practical use is as a cool near-white: bright enough to light a subject, tinted enough to separate from a white background.
How to get a full screen periwinkle 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.