Lavender Screen
Fill your whole display with lavender in one click. Nothing to install, nothing uploaded.
Lavender wallpaper
What a lavender screen is for
Lavender is an off-white with a slight blue-violet lift. It is gentle enough to use as a background for long reading sessions while still being bright enough to reveal dust and smears on the panel.
A pale purple, named after the plant
Lavender is purple lightened heavily with white: red and blue high with green raised substantially behind them. The name comes from the flower, whose colour it approximates, and the plant's own name derives from the Latin for washing, since it was used to scent laundry and baths. As with all pastels, the hue survives while the saturation drops, which is what makes it read as soft where the saturated version reads as strong.
The claims about lavender, weighed honestly
Lavender is frequently described as calming, and the evidence is uneven. There is reasonable research on lavender essential oil having mild anxiolytic effects, which is a claim about a compound rather than a colour. Evidence that the colour itself changes mood is much weaker, and studies of colour and emotion generally find that lightness and saturation predict response better than hue does. A pale, desaturated colour of any hue tends to be rated calmer than a vivid one.
As a light background
Lavender behaves like a tinted off-white: light enough that dark text meets contrast requirements easily, coloured enough not to be mistaken for grey. White text on it is unusable. On a panel it is a fair test of near-neutral accuracy, since all three channels run high but unequally, so a display with a colour cast renders lavender visibly too pink or too blue rather than balanced.
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.
Lavender color values
The exact values for this shade, if you need to match it somewhere else.
| Hex | #E6E6FA |
|---|---|
| RGB | 230, 230, 250 |
| HSL | 240°, 67%, 94% |
| CMYK | 8%, 8%, 0%, 2% |
| Contrast on white | 1.23:1 |
| Contrast on black | 17.06:1 |
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. Lavender reaches that bar on black.
Colors close to lavender
Measured as perceived difference, not by name, so these are the shades that genuinely sit nearest lavender 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 lavender 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 lavender screen?
This page uses #E6E6FA. The same value is shown in RGB, HSL and CMYK further down, so you can match this exact shade somewhere else.
Does a lavender 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 lavender 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.