Lemon Chiffon Screen
A full-screen solid lemon chiffon color (#FFFACD). Fill your whole display, or download the lemon chiffon screen as an image in 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K or any size you type in.
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What is a lemon chiffon screen?
A lemon chiffon screen is simply a web page filled edge to edge with one solid color — Lemon Chiffon, hex #FFFACD, or rgb(255, 250, 205). It is a very light, warm color: in HSL it sits at 54° hue, 100% saturation and 90% lightness, and its relative luminance is 94.0%. lemon-chiffon is one of the standard CSS color names, so it renders identically in every browser.
Lemon Chiffon screen at a glance
How a full-screen lemon chiffon (#FFFACD) behaves as a light, a test pattern and a background — measured from the color itself.
| Brightness | 94% of a white screen | Bright enough to use as a light source or fill light. |
|---|---|---|
| Blue light | low (24% of its light) | Less blue than a white screen (33%). |
| 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 · 19.8:1 | Excellent contrast for captions or signs (WCAG AAA). |
| Display test | red and green at full power | A dead red or green sub-pixel shows as a dark dot. |
What people use a lemon chiffon screen for
Because Lemon Chiffon is so light, a lemon chiffon screen doubles as a soft light source: prop a phone or tablet beside you as fill light on a video call, use it as a gentle reading light, or as a backlit surface for tracing.
Yellow screens are bright and warm, useful as a cheerful ambient light, a low-blue reading light in the evening, or an attention-grabbing background for signage and photos. A full yellow field drives the red and green sub-pixels at once, so any pixel that stays dark or blue-tinted stands out immediately.
As a test pattern, a flat lemon chiffon field makes a dead or stuck pixel jump out, and it exercises the red, green and blue sub-pixels.
#FFFACD) — this is also the preview image shown when you share the page.How to use the lemon chiffon screen
The color is already set to Lemon Chiffon (#FFFACD). Tap Open full screen, or the preview, to fill your whole display with lemon chiffon; press Esc or tap again to exit. To keep a copy, pick a size — a bright color like this makes a great 1080 × 1920 phone light or a 3840 × 2160 TV fill — and tap Download PNG or JPG. The file is created in your browser and saved as lemon-chiffon-screen-1920x1080.png, with no watermark. A flat lemon chiffon 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.
Lemon Chiffon screen color codes
The full-screen color and every download use exactly these values. Tap any row to copy it.
Contrast against white text 1.06:1 · against black text 19.81:1. See the full Lemon Chiffon color page for harmonies, shades and tints, or open it in the color picker.
Colors that go with a lemon chiffon screen
Using two screens side by side, a split display or a lemon chiffon wallpaper with accents? These named colors sit in harmony with Lemon Chiffon on the color wheel:
Build a full scheme from lemon chiffon 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:
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Lemon Chiffon screen — FAQ
What is the hex code for a lemon chiffon screen?
A lemon chiffon screen uses the color Lemon Chiffon, hex #FFFACD — rgb(255, 250, 205). The full-screen view and every download use exactly that value, and lemon-chiffon also works as a CSS color name.
How do I make my whole screen lemon chiffon?
Open this page and tap Open full screen (or tap the preview). Your browser fills the entire display with lemon chiffon 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 lemon chiffon screen?
A lemon chiffon screen gives off about 94% of the light of a white screen at the same brightness setting, so it works well as a light source or fill light. About 24% of its light is blue (a white screen is 33%), which counts as low blue light.
What color text is easiest to read on a lemon chiffon screen?
Black text, with a contrast ratio of 19.8:1, which passes the WCAG guideline for normal text. Check any other pairing in the contrast checker.