2025-02-10
From time to time, I just want to display a single block colour on my computer’s entire screen. So I Google something like ‘fullscreen solid colour’ and just click links until I find something that works.
But each time, I get a small papercut from the state of the web today. Here are the results Google serves me:
Full Black Screen, White Screen & Color Screen Tool - https://www.fullscreen.one
This one immediately pops up a huge modal cookie banner. It requires eight (eight!) clicks to disable everything and wants to send my data to literally hundreds of companies.
Color Aurlien - http://color.aurlien.net
No fullscreen button. Neat UI but kinda difficult to control what colour you select.
Full Screen Red Color - PiliApp - https://www.piliapp.com/screen/red
Can’t choose an arbitrary colour. Hard to remember the URL.
Black Screen - Make your screen DAZZLING! - https://www.fullblackscreen.com
The exact same terrible cookie banner as the first result.
Three irrelevant results from the Microsoft forums and Reddit
A tool for generating solid colour PNGs
colorscreen.io - https://colorscreen.io
A non-functional parked domain. How did this make it to the first page of the results?
On page 5, you reach the first decent result: whitetestscreen.com. But it uses <input type="color"> for its colour picker which (as a Firefox on macOS user) is rather clunky.
It turns out that TLDs like .top and .stream are dirt cheap. So I built a single-serving site to scratch my own itch.
I’ll probably add a few more input fields in future (e.g. hex RGB strings). Tell me below if you see a need for something specific.
I haven’t employed any black hat SEO (or spelled the word colour ‘correctly’), so I look forward to Google ignoring the site entirely. Hopefully someone finds it useful though. I’ll never know, because I didn’t add any tracking.
