Olive Screen
A full-screen solid olive color (#808000). Fill your whole display, or download the olive screen as an image in 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K or any size you type in.
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What is a olive screen?
A olive screen is simply a web page filled edge to edge with one solid color — Olive, hex #808000, or rgb(128, 128, 0). It is a mid-toned, warm color: in HSL it sits at 60° hue, 100% saturation and 25% lightness, and its relative luminance is 20.0%. olive is one of the standard CSS color names, so it renders identically in every browser.
Olive screen at a glance
How a full-screen olive (#808000) behaves as a light, a test pattern and a background — measured from the color itself.
| Brightness | 20% of a white screen | A dim glow — easy on the eyes in a dark room. |
|---|---|---|
| Blue light | very low (0% 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 olive screen works as a night light without being harsh. |
| Text on it | Black text · 5.0:1 | Readable for normal text (WCAG AA). |
| Display test | blue switched off | A stuck-on blue sub-pixel shows as a bright speck. |
What people use a olive screen for
As a saturated color, olive makes a bold backdrop for product photos, thumbnails and streams, and a strong mood light for a desk or party.
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 olive field makes a dead or stuck pixel jump out.
#808000) — this is also the preview image shown when you share the page.How to use the olive screen
The color is already set to Olive (#808000). Tap Open full screen, or the preview, to fill your whole display with olive; 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 olive-screen-1920x1080.png, with no watermark. A flat olive 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.
Olive screen color codes
The full-screen color and every download use exactly these values. Tap any row to copy it.
Contrast against white text 4.20:1 · against black text 5.01:1. See the full Olive color page for harmonies, shades and tints, or open it in the color picker.
Colors that go with a olive screen
Using two screens side by side, a split display or a olive wallpaper with accents? These named colors sit in harmony with Olive on the color wheel:
Build a full scheme from olive 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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Olive screen — FAQ
What is the hex code for a olive screen?
A olive screen uses the color Olive, hex #808000 — rgb(128, 128, 0). The full-screen view and every download use exactly that value, and olive also works as a CSS color name.
How do I make my whole screen olive?
Open this page and tap Open full screen (or tap the preview). Your browser fills the entire display with olive 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 olive screen?
A olive screen gives off about 20% of the light of a white screen at the same brightness setting, a comfortable level for ambient light. About 0% 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 olive screen?
Black text, with a contrast ratio of 5.0:1, which passes the WCAG guideline for normal text. Check any other pairing in the contrast checker.