Yellow Screen - full screen
Brightness check Β· low blue light
- Judge peak brightness β yellow reads brightest
- Check yellow reproduction and uniformity
- Bright lighting with less blue content
- High-visibility background
Brightness check Β· low blue light
Yellow is the colour the human eye perceives as brightest, because it fires both the red and green subpixels while sitting near the peak of our luminance response. That makes it useful for judging how bright a panel really gets. Yellow also contains far less short-wavelength light than white, so it is a common choice when you want brightness without the blue component.
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.