Fire Brick Screen
A full-screen solid fire brick color (#B22222). Fill your whole display, or download the fire brick screen as an image in 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K or any size you type in.
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What is a fire brick screen?
A fire brick screen is simply a web page filled edge to edge with one solid color — Fire Brick, hex #B22222, or rgb(178, 34, 34). It is a dark, warm color: in HSL it sits at 0° hue, 68% saturation and 42% lightness, and its relative luminance is 10.7%. fire-brick is one of the standard CSS color names, so it renders identically in every browser.
Fire Brick screen at a glance
How a full-screen fire brick (#B22222) behaves as a light, a test pattern and a background — measured from the color itself.
| Brightness | 11% of a white screen | A dim glow — easy on the eyes in a dark room. |
|---|---|---|
| Blue light | very low (3% 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 fire brick screen works as a night light without being harsh. |
| Text on it | White text · 6.7:1 | 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 fire brick screen for
Its low blue-light output also makes it a comfortable screen to leave on at night.
Red screens are the classic choice for anything that has to stay visible without wrecking night vision — amateur astronomers, photographers in a darkroom-style setup and pilots use a dim red field to read by while their eyes stay adapted to the dark. A saturated red also lights only the red sub-pixels of a display, which makes it a fast way to spot a dead green or blue sub-pixel, and it doubles as instant stage, party or "alert" lighting.
As a test pattern, a dark fire brick field is best for spotting backlight bleed and IPS glow on an LCD, or stuck "always-on" pixels on an OLED.
#B22222) — this is also the preview image shown when you share the page.How to use the fire brick screen
The color is already set to Fire Brick (#B22222). Tap Open full screen, or the preview, to fill your whole display with fire brick; 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 fire-brick-screen-1920x1080.png, with no watermark. A flat fire brick 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.
Fire Brick screen color codes
The full-screen color and every download use exactly these values. Tap any row to copy it.
Contrast against white text 6.68:1 · against black text 3.14:1. See the full Fire Brick color page for harmonies, shades and tints, or open it in the color picker.
Colors that go with a fire brick screen
Using two screens side by side, a split display or a fire brick wallpaper with accents? These named colors sit in harmony with Fire Brick on the color wheel:
Build a full scheme from fire brick 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 Fire Brick
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Fire Brick screen — FAQ
What is the hex code for a fire brick screen?
A fire brick screen uses the color Fire Brick, hex #B22222 — rgb(178, 34, 34). The full-screen view and every download use exactly that value, and fire-brick also works as a CSS color name.
How do I make my whole screen fire brick?
Open this page and tap Open full screen (or tap the preview). Your browser fills the entire display with fire brick 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 fire brick screen?
A fire brick screen gives off about 11% of the light of a white screen at the same brightness setting, a comfortable level for ambient light. About 3% 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 fire brick screen?
White text, with a contrast ratio of 6.7:1, which passes the WCAG guideline for normal text. Check any other pairing in the contrast checker.
Does a fire brick screen save battery?
On phones and laptops with an OLED or AMOLED display, yes — dark pixels use very little power and true black uses none, so a fire brick screen draws less than a bright one. On a normal LCD the backlight stays on regardless, so the saving is small.