Brown Screen
Fill your whole display with brown in one click. Nothing to install, nothing uploaded.
Brown wallpaper
What a brown screen is for
Brown is a dark orange, a mix no single subpixel produces. It is a reasonable check of whether darker mixed tones stay neutral or drift red on your panel.
There is no such thing as brown light
Point a spectrometer at brown and you will not find it, because brown only exists in comparison with its surroundings. It is dark orange, and it is seen as brown rather than as dim orange only when the eye has something brighter nearby to judge it against. Show the same signal on a screen in a completely dark room and it looks orange or muddy amber; put a white field beside it and it snaps back to brown. This context dependence is unusual among common colour names and makes brown a genuinely awkward colour to display in isolation.
Why brown is a comfortable background
Brown sits low in brightness and low in saturation, which is precisely what makes it easy to have on screen for a long time: it neither demands attention nor produces the eye strain that a large area of a saturated colour causes. That is the same reason it is common in interiors and in reading environments. On a display it works as a warm dark backdrop, and light text sits on it comfortably where the same text on a saturated colour would vibrate.
Brown on a panel
On a screen brown is red at moderate output with a smaller amount of green and very little blue. Because all three channels are partly on rather than fully on or off, it is a more demanding field than a primary: subtle channel imbalance shifts brown visibly toward red or green, which is why an uncalibrated monitor often renders brown noticeably off. If brown looks purple or olive rather than brown, the colour profile is a reasonable place to start looking.
Click the panel above to go fullscreen and press Esc to come back. The color is drawn by your browser, so nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded.
Brown color values
The exact values for this shade, if you need to match it somewhere else.
| Hex | #8B4513 |
|---|---|
| RGB | 139, 69, 19 |
| HSL | 25°, 76%, 31% |
| CMYK | 0%, 50%, 86%, 45% |
| Contrast on white | 7.1:1 |
| Contrast on black | 2.96:1 |
Contrast ratios follow the WCAG formula. Anything at or above 4.5:1 is readable as body text against that background, and 3:1 is the floor for large headings. Brown reaches that bar on white.
Colors close to brown
Measured as perceived difference, not by name, so these are the shades that genuinely sit nearest brown to the eye.
Questions
Does this work on a phone?
Yes. On mobile the page fills the screen when you tap the panel. Some browsers keep a thin status bar visible, which is a browser limit rather than something the page controls.
Will a brown screen fix a stuck pixel?
Sometimes. A stuck pixel is lit in one color and can occasionally be freed by cycling colors rapidly for a few minutes. A dead pixel receives no power at all and cannot be recovered in software.
What is the hex code for this brown screen?
This page uses #8B4513. The same value is shown in RGB, HSL and CMYK further down, so you can match this exact shade somewhere else.
Does a brown screen save battery?
Not meaningfully. Only black saves power, and only on OLED and AMOLED panels where an unlit pixel is genuinely off. Any lit color, including a dark one, draws power.
Can I download this brown as a wallpaper?
Yes. There is a ready-made 1920 by 1080 PNG on this page, and the panel above will generate the same color at your own screen size, at 1440p or 4K, or at phone dimensions. No watermark and no sign-up.
Is it free?
Yes, and there is no sign-up. The page draws a color; that is the whole tool.