Tangerine Screen
A full-screen solid tangerine color (#F28500). Fill your whole display, or download the tangerine screen as an image in 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K or any size you type in.
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What is a tangerine screen?
A tangerine screen is simply a web page filled edge to edge with one solid color — Tangerine, hex #F28500, or rgb(242, 133, 0). It is a light, warm color: in HSL it sits at 33° hue, 100% saturation and 47% lightness, and its relative luminance is 35.7%. The closest standard CSS color is Dark Orange (#FF8C00).
Tangerine screen at a glance
How a full-screen tangerine (#F28500) behaves as a light, a test pattern and a background — measured from the color itself.
| Brightness | 36% of a white screen | A medium light level — comfortable as ambient light. |
|---|---|---|
| Blue light | very low (0% of its light) | Very little blue light, so it is gentle on your body clock 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 | Black text · 8.1:1 | Excellent contrast for captions or signs (WCAG AAA). |
| Display test | red at full power, blue switched off | A dead red sub-pixel shows as a dark dot. A stuck-on blue sub-pixel shows as a bright speck. |
What people use a tangerine screen for
As a saturated color, tangerine makes a bold backdrop for product photos, thumbnails and streams, and a strong mood light for a desk or party.
Orange screens give a warm, sunset-like glow with almost no blue light, so they work well as a relaxed evening ambient light behind a desk or TV, as seasonal (autumn or Halloween) decoration, and as a high-visibility backdrop. Because orange sits between red and yellow, it also helps confirm that the red and green sub-pixels of a panel are both firing.
As a test pattern, a flat tangerine field makes a dead or stuck pixel jump out, and it exercises the red sub-pixel.
#F28500) — this is also the preview image shown when you share the page.How to use the tangerine screen
The color is already set to Tangerine (#F28500). Tap Open full screen, or the preview, to fill your whole display with tangerine; 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 tangerine-screen-1920x1080.png, with no watermark. A flat tangerine 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.
Tangerine screen color codes
The full-screen color and every download use exactly these values. Tap any row to copy it.
Contrast against white text 2.58:1 · against black text 8.13:1. See the full Tangerine color page for harmonies, shades and tints, or open it in the color picker.
Colors that go with a tangerine screen
Using two screens side by side, a split display or a tangerine wallpaper with accents? These named colors sit in harmony with Tangerine on the color wheel:
Build a full scheme from tangerine 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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Tangerine screen — FAQ
What is the hex code for a tangerine screen?
A tangerine screen uses the color Tangerine, hex #F28500 — rgb(242, 133, 0). The full-screen view and every download use exactly that value. The nearest standard CSS name is Dark Orange (#FF8C00).
How do I make my whole screen tangerine?
Open this page and tap Open full screen (or tap the preview). Your browser fills the entire display with tangerine 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 tangerine screen?
A tangerine screen gives off about 36% 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 tangerine screen?
Black text, with a contrast ratio of 8.1:1, which passes the WCAG guideline for normal text. Check any other pairing in the contrast checker.