Solid color wallpaper maker: plain backgrounds for any screen
Choose any color and a size (phone 1170 × 2532, desktop 1920 × 1080 or 2560 × 1440, square, or banner) and download a flat PNG wallpaper. The page also shows how white and black icons and clocks will read on it.
| white icons and clock on it | 7.16:1 | AA AA large AAA |
|---|---|---|
| black icons and clock on it | 2.93:1 | AA AA large AAA |
On this page
A plain wallpaper is the calmest background there is. It makes app icons easy to find, hides nothing behind a clock, and it never looks cluttered. It is also awkward to find: image sites are full of photos and patterns, and exact colors are rare. This maker draws one in exactly the color you type.
How to use it
Under Wallpaper color, enter a hex code or use the color picker. Then pick a size from the list:
- Desktop 1920 × 1080
- Desktop 2560 × 1440
- Phone 1170 × 2532 (the default)
- Square post 1080 × 1080
- Banner 1500 × 500
A preview frame takes the shape of the size you pick. Press Download PNG and the file arrives named by color and size, for example solid-7b3f8c-1170x2532.png. The starting color is a plum, #7B3F8C.
Beneath the preview, two rows give the contrast of white and black against your color. Phone icon labels and the clock are usually white or black, so these rows tell you which suits the wallpaper.
Sizes and cropping
The download is a flat image at exactly the pixel size you chose. Phones and desktops scale and crop wallpapers to fit, but with one flat color, nothing is lost whatever the crop. That also means a gradient-free file has no banding, and the PNG stays small. If your screen has a different resolution, any size will do, because a solid color looks the same stretched.
Colors can look a little different from one display to another, depending on its brightness and color settings, and a wallpaper on an OLED phone will not match a monitor. The hex code is exact; what you see depends on the screen.
Worked example
You just set up a new phone and want a quiet home screen with white app labels. A dark blue such as #1F2A44 is a good fit: white measures 14.25:1 on it, and black only 1.47:1. For a light daytime wallpaper, a warm sand like #E8DCC8 reverses the result: black text gives 15.50:1, white just 1.35:1, so the white clock and labels disappear. Type #1F2A44, keep the phone size, press Download PNG, then add the file to your photo library and set it from the wallpaper settings. If you keep the plum default, white reads at 7.16:1, which is fine for icons and labels but a little less crisp than the navy.
Picking a color that works
- Mid-tone colors are the hardest: neither white nor black gets a strong ratio. Go clearly dark or clearly light.
- Use the shade and tint generator to find a darker or paler version of a favorite color that will carry icons better.
- For a soft fade instead of a flat fill, use the gradient generator, which downloads the same sizes.