What a plum screen is used for
- Deep, muted backgrounds for photography
- Low-intensity ambient light
- A softer alternative to saturated purple
Plum screen online: #8E4585 at full screen
Plum is #8E4585 — red and blue in the middle range with a small amount of green, which mutes it compared with #800080. That green content is what makes it read as a natural, dusty purple rather than a display primary.
It is a comfortable colour for long ambient use: dark enough not to glare, coloured enough to be clearly deliberate.
How to get a full screen plum 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.