What a sky blue screen is used for
- Soft, cool backgrounds for photography and video
- A calm alternative to a white screen
- Daylight-leaning fill light for webcams
Sky Blue screen online: #87CEEB at full screen
Sky blue is #87CEEB — blue high with substantial green and red, which lightens it and keeps it from reading as a display primary. It is close to the colour of a clear midday sky, which is itself the result of shorter wavelengths scattering more in the atmosphere.
As webcam fill it pushes an image towards daylight balance. In a room lit by warm bulbs, a second screen showing this page can bring skin tones closer to neutral without any camera settings.
How to get a full screen sky blue 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.