Ash Screen
A full-screen solid ash color (#B2BEB5). Fill your whole display, or download the ash screen as an image in 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K or any size you type in.
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What is a ash screen?
A ash screen is simply a web page filled edge to edge with one solid color — Ash, hex #B2BEB5, or rgb(178, 190, 181). It is a light, cool color: in HSL it sits at 135° hue, 8% saturation and 72% lightness, and its relative luminance is 49.6%. The closest standard CSS color is Silver (#C0C0C0).
Ash screen at a glance
How a full-screen ash (#B2BEB5) behaves as a light, a test pattern and a background — measured from the color itself.
| Brightness | 50% of a white screen | A medium light level — comfortable as ambient light. |
|---|---|---|
| Blue light | moderate (32% of its light) | About as much blue as a white screen. |
| Night use | Better for daytime | For a night light, turn the brightness down or choose a warmer screen such as red or orange. |
| Text on it | Black text · 10.9:1 | Excellent contrast for captions or signs (WCAG AAA). |
| Display test | Mixed sub-pixel levels | Good for spotting uneven backlight, banding and tint across the panel. |
What people use a ash screen for
Ash is a muted, low-saturation color, so it makes a calm, distraction-free background for focus, reading or a video call, and it does not cast a strong tint onto faces.
Black screens save power on OLED and AMOLED displays (each black pixel is switched off), reveal backlight bleed and IPS glow on LCDs, and cut glare and eye strain at night. A true-black field is also the go-to background for photography, cinema-style letterboxing, and hiding a screen that has to stay on. Mid-gray fields are the neutral reference for panel-uniformity and colour work.
As a test pattern, a flat ash field makes a dead or stuck pixel jump out, and it exercises the red, green and blue sub-pixels.
#B2BEB5) — this is also the preview image shown when you share the page.How to use the ash screen
The color is already set to Ash (#B2BEB5). Tap Open full screen, or the preview, to fill your whole display with ash; press Esc or tap again to exit. To keep a copy, pick a size — 1920 × 1080 for a desktop wallpaper, 1080 × 1920 for a phone or 3840 × 2160 for a 4K TV — and tap Download PNG or JPG. The file is created in your browser and saved as ash-screen-1920x1080.png, with no watermark. A flat ash image compresses to a few kilobytes even at 4K.
Every resolution, aspect ratio and device tip (phones, TVs, projectors, second monitors) is in the full color screen guide.
Ash screen color codes
The full-screen color and every download use exactly these values. Tap any row to copy it.
Contrast against white text 1.92:1 · against black text 10.93:1. See the full Ash color page for harmonies, shades and tints, or open it in the color picker.
Colors that go with a ash screen
Using two screens side by side, a split display or a ash wallpaper with accents? These named colors sit in harmony with Ash on the color wheel:
Build a full scheme from ash in the color matcher or the palette generator, or blend it into another color with the gradient creator for a gradient wallpaper.
Popular color screens
The colors people reach for most often as a full-screen background or light:
Colors similar to Ash
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Ash screen — FAQ
What is the hex code for a ash screen?
A ash screen uses the color Ash, hex #B2BEB5 — rgb(178, 190, 181). The full-screen view and every download use exactly that value. The nearest standard CSS name is Silver (#C0C0C0).
How do I make my whole screen ash?
Open this page and tap Open full screen (or tap the preview). Your browser fills the entire display with ash and hides its own toolbars; press Esc or tap the screen to come back. To keep it, download it in 1080p, 4K or any size as a free PNG or JPG — no sign-up or watermark.
How bright is a ash screen?
A ash screen gives off about 50% of the light of a white screen at the same brightness setting, a comfortable level for ambient light. About 32% of its light is blue (a white screen is 33%), which counts as moderate blue light.
What color text is easiest to read on a ash screen?
Black text, with a contrast ratio of 10.9:1, which passes the WCAG guideline for normal text. Check any other pairing in the contrast checker.