Dark Sea Green Screen
A full-screen solid dark sea green color (#8FBC8F). Fill your whole display, or download the dark sea green screen as an image in 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K or any size you type in.
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What is a dark sea green screen?
A dark sea green screen is simply a web page filled edge to edge with one solid color — Dark Sea Green, hex #8FBC8F, or rgb(143, 188, 143). It is a light, cool color: in HSL it sits at 120° hue, 25% saturation and 65% lightness, and its relative luminance is 43.8%. dark-sea-green is one of the standard CSS color names, so it renders identically in every browser.
Dark Sea Green screen at a glance
How a full-screen dark sea green (#8FBC8F) behaves as a light, a test pattern and a background — measured from the color itself.
| Brightness | 44% of a white screen | A medium light level — comfortable as ambient light. |
|---|---|---|
| Blue light | moderate (26% 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 · 9.8:1 | 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 dark sea green screen for
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 dark sea green field makes a dead or stuck pixel jump out, and it exercises the green sub-pixel.
#8FBC8F) — this is also the preview image shown when you share the page.How to use the dark sea green screen
The color is already set to Dark Sea Green (#8FBC8F). Tap Open full screen, or the preview, to fill your whole display with dark sea green; 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 dark-sea-green-screen-1920x1080.png, with no watermark. A flat dark sea green 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.
Dark Sea Green screen color codes
The full-screen color and every download use exactly these values. Tap any row to copy it.
Contrast against white text 2.15:1 · against black text 9.76:1. See the full Dark Sea Green color page for harmonies, shades and tints, or open it in the color picker.
Colors that go with a dark sea green screen
Using two screens side by side, a split display or a dark sea green wallpaper with accents? These named colors sit in harmony with Dark Sea Green on the color wheel:
Build a full scheme from dark sea green in the color matcher or the palette generator, or blend it into another color with the gradient creator for a gradient wallpaper.
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The colors people reach for most often as a full-screen background or light:
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Dark Sea Green screen — FAQ
What is the hex code for a dark sea green screen?
A dark sea green screen uses the color Dark Sea Green, hex #8FBC8F — rgb(143, 188, 143). The full-screen view and every download use exactly that value, and dark-sea-green also works as a CSS color name.
How do I make my whole screen dark sea green?
Open this page and tap Open full screen (or tap the preview). Your browser fills the entire display with dark sea green 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 dark sea green screen?
A dark sea green screen gives off about 44% of the light of a white screen at the same brightness setting, a comfortable level for ambient light. About 26% 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 dark sea green screen?
Black text, with a contrast ratio of 9.8:1, which passes the WCAG guideline for normal text. Check any other pairing in the contrast checker.