What the motivational quote screensaver is
Quotes are set in real text rather than drawn on a canvas, which means they break across lines properly at any window size and a screen reader can read what is on screen. That sounds like a small thing until you try to read a canvas-drawn quote on a phone.
The set is deliberately old — Stoics, philosophers, scientists and proverbs. Nothing here is a paraphrase passed off as a quotation, and nothing is attributed to someone who did not say it. Several very famous lines are missing for exactly that reason.
Every author starts ticked. Untick the ones you have had enough of and they are gone: the pool rebuilds immediately, the quote on screen changes if it belonged to somebody you just removed, and the choice goes into the address bar with everything else.
- A focus screen on a second monitor while you work
- A slow, quiet display for a studio, a gym or a waiting area
- Something to leave on a projector between sessions at an event
- A quote wall matched to a brand — set the two colours and the typeface, then bookmark it
Quotes screensaver online, fullscreen
The interval control sets how long each quote stays up, from four seconds to a minute. Longer is better if the screen is somewhere people glance at occasionally rather than watch.
Type size is a percentage rather than a pixel value, because the screen it ends up on is not the screen you are setting it up on. At 100 per cent a quote fills roughly the same share of a phone, a laptop and a projector; turn it down for long quotes on a small panel, or up for a display people read from across a room.
Text and background are two independent hex fields, so white on black, black on white, or your own two brand colours all work. The attribution underneath is drawn in the text colour at reduced strength, which means it stays readable whichever way round you go without a third setting to get wrong.
The transition is a slow fade rather than a slide, which keeps the screen calm in peripheral vision — the whole point of a quote screen on a second monitor is that it should not pull your eye.
How to run the motivational quote screensaver full screen
Press the fullscreen button on the player, or the F key. Escape brings you back to the page. On a desktop browser F11 does the same job and hides the browser’s own toolbars as well, which is what you want on a display that is going to be left running.
Everything you change in the settings is written into the address bar as you change it, so the version you have set up is a link. Bookmark it, or send it to whoever is running the screen. Space pauses and resumes at any time.