Sea Shell Screen
A full-screen solid sea shell color (#FFF5EE). Fill your whole display, or download the sea shell screen as an image in 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K or any size you type in.
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What is a sea shell screen?
A sea shell screen is simply a web page filled edge to edge with one solid color — Sea Shell, hex #FFF5EE, or rgb(255, 245, 238). It is a very light, warm color: in HSL it sits at 25° hue, 100% saturation and 97% lightness, and its relative luminance is 92.7%. sea-shell is one of the standard CSS color names, so it renders identically in every browser.
Sea Shell screen at a glance
How a full-screen sea shell (#FFF5EE) behaves as a light, a test pattern and a background — measured from the color itself.
| Brightness | 93% of a white screen | Bright enough to use as a light source or fill light. |
|---|---|---|
| Blue light | moderate (31% 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 · 19.5:1 | Excellent contrast for captions or signs (WCAG AAA). |
| Display test | red, green and blue at full power | A dead red, green or blue sub-pixel shows as a dark dot. |
What people use a sea shell screen for
Because Sea Shell is so light, a sea shell 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.
White screens are the most-used solid colour of all: a full white field is a light source. People use one to check a monitor, phone or TV for dead pixels, dust and backlight bleed, as a tracing light-pad, as a fill light for video calls and photography, as an improvised flashlight, and as a clean background for scanning or product shots.
As a test pattern, a flat sea shell field makes a dead or stuck pixel jump out, and it exercises the red, green and blue sub-pixels.
#FFF5EE) — this is also the preview image shown when you share the page.How to use the sea shell screen
The color is already set to Sea Shell (#FFF5EE). Tap Open full screen, or the preview, to fill your whole display with sea shell; 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 sea-shell-screen-1920x1080.png, with no watermark. A flat sea shell 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.
Sea Shell screen color codes
The full-screen color and every download use exactly these values. Tap any row to copy it.
Contrast against white text 1.07:1 · against black text 19.55:1. See the full Sea Shell color page for harmonies, shades and tints, or open it in the color picker.
Colors that go with a sea shell screen
Using two screens side by side, a split display or a sea shell wallpaper with accents? These named colors sit in harmony with Sea Shell on the color wheel:
Build a full scheme from sea shell 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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Sea Shell screen — FAQ
What is the hex code for a sea shell screen?
A sea shell screen uses the color Sea Shell, hex #FFF5EE — rgb(255, 245, 238). The full-screen view and every download use exactly that value, and sea-shell also works as a CSS color name.
How do I make my whole screen sea shell?
Open this page and tap Open full screen (or tap the preview). Your browser fills the entire display with sea shell 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 sea shell screen?
A sea shell screen gives off about 93% of the light of a white screen at the same brightness setting, so it works well as a light source or fill light. About 31% 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 sea shell screen?
Black text, with a contrast ratio of 19.5:1, which passes the WCAG guideline for normal text. Check any other pairing in the contrast checker.