Navy Screen
Fill your whole display with navy in one click. Nothing to install, nothing uploaded.
Navy wallpaper
What a navy screen is for
Navy is a good compromise when pure black feels too harsh against a lit room. It is dark enough to rest the eyes while keeping enough light to avoid the strong contrast edge a black screen creates.
A dark colour that stays a colour
Navy is blue at low brightness, and the useful thing about it is that it remains recognisably blue where most colours turn to indistinct dark grey as they darken. That comes from blue keeping its identity at low luminance better than red or green do. It is why navy has served as a formal colour for uniforms and business dress: near-black at a distance, unmistakably not black up close, and forgiving of wear in a way true black is not.
Navy instead of black, on screen
A very dark blue is a common alternative to pure black as an interface background, because it reads as softer while preserving nearly the same contrast for light text. The trade is power. On an OLED or AMOLED panel a black pixel is switched off entirely and draws essentially nothing, while navy still lights the blue subpixel across the whole screen, so a navy background costs meaningfully more battery than a black one on those displays. On an LCD the difference is negligible, because the backlight runs regardless.
What navy shows about a panel
Dark blue fields are useful for spotting black-level problems. On an LCD, navy in a dark room reveals whether the panel can hold a dark tone without the backlight washing it toward grey, and it makes any unevenness in the lower part of the brightness range easier to see than pure black does, because there is a signal present to be uneven. Banding, where a smooth dark area breaks into visible steps, also tends to show first in the deep blues.
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.
Navy color values
The exact values for this shade, if you need to match it somewhere else.
| Hex | #000080 |
|---|---|
| RGB | 0, 0, 128 |
| HSL | 240°, 100%, 25% |
| CMYK | 100%, 100%, 0%, 50% |
| Contrast on white | 16.01:1 |
| Contrast on black | 1.31:1 |
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. Navy reaches that bar on white.
Colors close to navy
Measured as perceived difference, not by name, so these are the shades that genuinely sit nearest navy 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 navy 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 navy screen?
This page uses #000080. The same value is shown in RGB, HSL and CMYK further down, so you can match this exact shade somewhere else.
Does a navy 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 navy 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.