Navy Screen - full screen
Dark background Β· easy on the eyes
- Dark background that is easier than pure black
- Night-time desktop or slide background
- Calm backdrop for presentations
- Deep background for overlaid white text
Dark background Β· easy on the eyes
Navy gives you a dark background without the harshness of pure black. White text on pure black produces very high contrast that many people find tiring over long sessions, so dark blue is a common compromise for slides and documents. Note that indigo β the colour usually named in the rainbow sequence β is a more violet shade (#4B0082); in everyday use navy means a deep blue, which is what this page shows.
Using a display as a light source is the standard workaround when there is no ring light to hand. A laptop or monitor already sits directly in front of you, so the angle is natural, and the large emitting area gives soft shadows. Full brightness usually blows out skin detail, so drop it to 30-60 per cent and use the colour temperature slider to set the tone. Turn on keep screen awake so the display does not sleep part way through.
For testing, leave brightness at 100 per cent and colour temperature neutral β otherwise you are inspecting an adjusted colour rather than the panel itself. Turn off night mode and blue light filters too. To check thoroughly, cycle through red, green, blue, white and black; the dead pixel test page does that automatically.
The export here builds the image in your browser rather than downloading a pre-made file from a server. A canvas is filled with the current colour and saved, which means any resolution works and whatever brightness and colour temperature you set is baked into the file.