Basil Screen
A full-screen solid basil color (#579229). Fill your whole display, or download the basil screen as an image in 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K or any size you type in.
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What is a basil screen?
A basil screen is simply a web page filled edge to edge with one solid color — Basil, hex #579229, or rgb(87, 146, 41). It is a mid-toned, cool color: in HSL it sits at 94° hue, 56% saturation and 37% lightness, and its relative luminance is 22.7%. The closest standard CSS color is Olive Drab (#6B8E23).
Basil screen at a glance
How a full-screen basil (#579229) behaves as a light, a test pattern and a background — measured from the color itself.
| Brightness | 23% of a white screen | A dim glow — easy on the eyes in a dark room. |
|---|---|---|
| Blue light | very low (5% of its light) | Very little blue light, so it is gentle on your body clock at night. |
| Night use | Good | Dim and low in blue light, so a basil screen works as a night light without being harsh. |
| Text on it | Black text · 5.5:1 | Readable for normal text (WCAG AA). |
| Display test | Mixed sub-pixel levels | Good for spotting uneven backlight, banding and tint across the panel. |
What people use a basil screen for
Its low blue-light output also makes it a comfortable screen to leave on at night.
Green screens are best known for chroma-key video: streamers and filmmakers fill a display with pure green to key themselves onto a different background. Green is also the channel the eye is most sensitive to, so a green field is a sensitive test for panel uniformity and stuck pixels, and a softer green makes a calm ambient light.
As a test pattern, a flat basil field makes a dead or stuck pixel jump out.
#579229) — this is also the preview image shown when you share the page.How to use the basil screen
The color is already set to Basil (#579229). Tap Open full screen, or the preview, to fill your whole display with basil; 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 basil-screen-1920x1080.png, with no watermark. A flat basil 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.
Basil screen color codes
The full-screen color and every download use exactly these values. Tap any row to copy it.
Contrast against white text 3.78:1 · against black text 5.55:1. See the full Basil color page for harmonies, shades and tints, or open it in the color picker.
Colors that go with a basil screen
Using two screens side by side, a split display or a basil wallpaper with accents? These named colors sit in harmony with Basil on the color wheel:
Build a full scheme from basil 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 Basil
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Basil screen — FAQ
What is the hex code for a basil screen?
A basil screen uses the color Basil, hex #579229 — rgb(87, 146, 41). The full-screen view and every download use exactly that value. The nearest standard CSS name is Olive Drab (#6B8E23).
How do I make my whole screen basil?
Open this page and tap Open full screen (or tap the preview). Your browser fills the entire display with basil 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 basil screen?
A basil screen gives off about 23% of the light of a white screen at the same brightness setting, a comfortable level for ambient light. About 5% of its light is blue (a white screen is 33%), which counts as very low blue light.
What color text is easiest to read on a basil screen?
Black text, with a contrast ratio of 5.5:1, which passes the WCAG guideline for normal text. Check any other pairing in the contrast checker.