White Smoke Screen
A full-screen solid white smoke color (#F5F5F5). Fill your whole display, or download the white smoke screen as an image in 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 4K or any size you type in.
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What is a white smoke screen?
A white smoke screen is simply a web page filled edge to edge with one solid color — White Smoke, hex #F5F5F5, or rgb(245, 245, 245). It is a very light, neutral color: in HSL it sits at 0° hue, 0% saturation and 96% lightness, and its relative luminance is 91.3%. white-smoke is one of the standard CSS color names, so it renders identically in every browser.
White Smoke screen at a glance
How a full-screen white smoke (#F5F5F5) behaves as a light, a test pattern and a background — measured from the color itself.
| Brightness | 91% of a white screen | Bright enough to use as a light source or fill light. |
|---|---|---|
| Blue light | moderate (33% 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 · 19.3:1 | 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 white smoke screen for
Because White Smoke is so light, a white smoke 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 Smoke is a muted, low-saturation color, so it makes a calm, distraction-free background for focus, reading or a video call, and it does not cast a strong tint onto faces.
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 white smoke field makes a dead or stuck pixel jump out, and it exercises the red, green and blue sub-pixels.
#F5F5F5) — this is also the preview image shown when you share the page.How to use the white smoke screen
The color is already set to White Smoke (#F5F5F5). Tap Open full screen, or the preview, to fill your whole display with white smoke; 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 white-smoke-screen-1920x1080.png, with no watermark. A flat white smoke 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.
White Smoke screen color codes
The full-screen color and every download use exactly these values. Tap any row to copy it.
Contrast against white text 1.09:1 · against black text 19.26:1. See the full White Smoke color page for harmonies, shades and tints, or open it in the color picker.
Colors that go with a white smoke screen
Using two screens side by side, a split display or a white smoke wallpaper with accents? These named colors sit in harmony with White Smoke on the color wheel:
Build a full scheme from white smoke 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 White Smoke
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White Smoke screen — FAQ
What is the hex code for a white smoke screen?
A white smoke screen uses the color White Smoke, hex #F5F5F5 — rgb(245, 245, 245). The full-screen view and every download use exactly that value, and white-smoke also works as a CSS color name.
How do I make my whole screen white smoke?
Open this page and tap Open full screen (or tap the preview). Your browser fills the entire display with white smoke 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 white smoke screen?
A white smoke screen gives off about 91% of the light of a white screen at the same brightness setting, so it works well as a light source or fill light. About 33% 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 white smoke screen?
Black text, with a contrast ratio of 19.3:1, which passes the WCAG guideline for normal text. Check any other pairing in the contrast checker.