Gold Screen
Fill your whole display with gold in one click. Nothing to install, nothing uploaded.
Gold wallpaper
What a gold screen is for
Gold is a slightly warmer yellow and reads as a warm light source on camera, which makes it useful as a small accent light when filling a frame from a second screen.
Why gold cannot really be shown on a screen
Gold is not a colour in the way red is; it is a surface behaviour. What makes metal look metallic is that it reflects light in a directional way, so the brightness shifts as the object or the viewer moves, and a highlight travels across it. A screen showing one flat value cannot reproduce any of that, because nothing changes when you move. What you get is the hue of gold, a saturated yellow-orange, without the property that makes gold read as gold. Every flat gold on a screen is a stand-in, and this is why gold in design is usually a gradient rather than a single value.
The hue underneath
Strip away the reflectivity and gold is a dark, slightly desaturated yellow leaning toward orange, produced on a display by full red, roughly four fifths green and no blue. Real gold has this colour because of an unusual quirk of physics: relativistic effects on its electrons shift its absorption into the blue part of the spectrum, so it absorbs blue and reflects the rest. Most metals absorb little across the visible range and therefore look silver; gold and copper are the notable exceptions.
Using it as a flat field
As a background, gold behaves like a warm mid-tone: bright enough that dark text sits on it comfortably, not bright enough to work as a light source. It is a reasonable choice for a wallpaper where you want warmth without the intensity of full yellow. If you are trying to match printed gold foil or a physical object, expect disappointment for the reason above, and consider that the thing you are matching changes appearance under every light it sits in.
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.
Gold color values
The exact values for this shade, if you need to match it somewhere else.
| Hex | #FFD700 |
|---|---|
| RGB | 255, 215, 0 |
| HSL | 51°, 100%, 50% |
| CMYK | 0%, 16%, 100%, 0% |
| Contrast on white | 1.4:1 |
| Contrast on black | 14.97:1 |
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. Gold reaches that bar on black.
Colors close to gold
Measured as perceived difference, not by name, so these are the shades that genuinely sit nearest gold 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 gold 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 gold screen?
This page uses #FFD700. The same value is shown in RGB, HSL and CMYK further down, so you can match this exact shade somewhere else.
Does a gold screen save battery?
No, and on an OLED or AMOLED screen a light color costs more power than a dark one, because every pixel has to be lit. If battery life is the goal, use the black screen instead.
Can I download this gold 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.