Purple Screen
A full-screen solid purple color (#800080). Fill your whole display, or download the purple screen as an image in 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K or any size you type in.
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What is a purple screen?
A purple screen is simply a web page filled edge to edge with one solid color — Purple, hex #800080, or rgb(128, 0, 128). It is a dark, cool color: in HSL it sits at 300° hue, 100% saturation and 25% lightness, and its relative luminance is 6.1%. purple is one of the standard CSS color names, so it renders identically in every browser.
Purple screen at a glance
How a full-screen purple (#800080) behaves as a light, a test pattern and a background — measured from the color itself.
| Brightness | 6% of a white screen | A dim glow — easy on the eyes in a dark room. |
|---|---|---|
| Blue light | high (50% of its light) | More blue than a white screen — better for daytime than late at night. |
| 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 | White text · 9.4:1 | Excellent contrast for captions or signs (WCAG AAA). |
| Display test | green switched off | A stuck-on green sub-pixel shows as a bright speck. |
What people use a purple screen for
RGB desk and gaming ambience
Purple is the signature colour of RGB battlestations and gaming rooms. A purple screen on a spare display or phone washes the area in colour for photos, streams and mood without the harshness of pure red or blue.
Stream and event branding
Many streamers build their look around purple, so a purple screen makes an on-brand backdrop, waiting screen or overlay fill.
Green sub-pixel check
Purple is red plus blue with green off, so a purple field makes a failing green sub-pixel easy to see.
As a test pattern, a dark purple field is best for spotting backlight bleed and IPS glow on an LCD, or stuck "always-on" pixels on an OLED.
#800080) — this is also the preview image shown when you share the page.How to use the purple screen
The color is already set to Purple (#800080). Tap Open full screen, or the preview, to fill your whole display with purple; press Esc or tap again to exit. To keep a copy, pick a size — a dark color like this suits a 3840 × 2160 TV or an always-on phone wallpaper at 1080 × 1920 — and tap Download PNG or JPG. The file is created in your browser and saved as purple-screen-1920x1080.png, with no watermark. A flat purple 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.
Purple screen color codes
The full-screen color and every download use exactly these values. Tap any row to copy it.
Contrast against white text 9.42:1 · against black text 2.23:1. See the full Purple color page for harmonies, shades and tints, or open it in the color picker.
Colors that go with a purple screen
Using two screens side by side, a split display or a purple wallpaper with accents? These named colors sit in harmony with Purple on the color wheel:
Build a full scheme from purple 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 Purple
More purple screens
Purple screen — FAQ
What is the hex code for a purple screen?
A purple screen uses the color Purple, hex #800080 — rgb(128, 0, 128). The full-screen view and every download use exactly that value, and purple also works as a CSS color name.
How do I make my whole screen purple?
Open this page and tap Open full screen (or tap the preview). Your browser fills the entire display with purple 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 purple screen?
A purple screen gives off about 6% of the light of a white screen at the same brightness setting, so it stays very dark — useful when a screen has to stay on without lighting the room. About 50% of its light is blue (a white screen is 33%), which counts as high blue light.
What color text is easiest to read on a purple screen?
White text, with a contrast ratio of 9.4:1, which passes the WCAG guideline for normal text. Check any other pairing in the contrast checker.
Does a purple 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 purple screen draws less than a bright one. On a normal LCD the backlight stays on regardless, so the saving is small.