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Full Screen Cyan Display

Turn your entire screen pure cyan with one click. Cyan is green and blue at full power with red switched off, which makes it good at exposing stuck red sub-pixels, and a strong cool light for teal-and-orange looks.

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What the cyan field is for

Stuck red sub-pixels

Red is off across the whole field, so a red sub-pixel stuck on shows as a pale or white dot against the cyan.

Teal-and-orange lighting

Cyan on one side and orange on the other is the classic film look. Two screens make a small version of it.

Cool accent light

A cyan field makes a crisp cool rim or background light for product and portrait shots.

Green and blue balance

Cyan is an even mix of two channels. If it drifts toward blue or toward green, one of them is stronger on this panel or in this profile.

Field notes

Cyan is the opposite of red, which is what makes it useful.

Cyan lights green and blue and leaves every red sub-pixel off. Add a red sub-pixel that is stuck on and that pixel becomes red plus green plus blue, which is white. So a stuck red sub-pixel shows up as a small pale dot here, where it can be hard to find on white.

Written by Piero Nanni. If a panel of yours behaves differently, tell me and I will correct it. Updated .

Questions

What is cyan used for in video production?
Mostly as a cool practical or accent light, and as the teal half of the teal-and-orange grading look. A cyan screen gives you that light source on set.
Is cyan the same as turquoise or teal?
Not quite. Cyan is an equal mix of green and blue light, shown here at full strength. Turquoise leans a little toward green and is often paler, and teal is a darker, more muted version.
Can a cyan screen find stuck pixels?
Stuck red sub-pixels, yes. Red is off across the whole field, so a red sub-pixel stuck on turns its pixel white and shows as a pale dot. For a full check, use the dead pixel test.

Download as an image

The same #00FFFF field as a PNG, for a wallpaper, a slide or video background, or a TV that plays images from a USB stick. Made in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Other colors

Any other colour: use the picker on the homepage.

Screen tools

  • White Screen Test Check a white field for dust, dead pixels, uniformity, and tint.
  • Dead Pixel Test Cycle white, black, red, green, and blue to find faulty pixels.
  • Stuck Pixel Fixer Rapidly flash colors over a stuck pixel to try to un-stick it.
  • Backlight Bleed Test Spot light leaking around the edges of an LCD panel on black.
  • Screen Burn-In Test Reveal retained images and uneven wear on OLED and plasma panels.
  • Monitor Test Full sweep: pixels, bleed, uniformity, and color channels.
  • Light Box Use the screen as a tracing panel or soft photography light.