Sixteen procedures, one palette
- Mesh: soft blurred blobs of every color melting into each other, the macOS look. Fields: Blobs and Softness.
- Waves: layered rolling waves stacked from the bottom, one color per crest. Fields: Height and Frequency.
- Aurora: wavy ribbons of light rippling across a starry night sky. Fields: Glow and Spread.
- Low Poly: a faceted crystal of triangles shaded through the palette. Fields: Density and Angle.
- Stripes: bold bands of color in varying widths, at any angle. Fields: Bands and Angle.
- Orbs: translucent glass spheres floating over a deep gradient. Fields: Count and Size.
- Mountain: misty mountain ridges fading into the sky, layer behind layer. Fields: Peaks and Haze.
- Synthwave: a retro sun over a glowing perspective grid, the 80s outrun look. Fields: Sun and Grid.
- Circuit: traces and solder pads winding across a circuit board. Fields: Density and Angle.
- Forest: pine forest silhouettes in layers of morning mist. Fields: Trees and Mist.
- Checkered: a checkerboard bent into gentle waves, the wavy checkered aesthetic. Fields: Cells and Warp.
- Hexagon: a honeycomb of beveled hexagons with a few lit cells, the tech grid look. Fields: Size and Gap.
- Terrazzo: colorful stone chips scattered in a smooth base, the terrazzo floor look. Fields: Chips and Size.
- Isometric: a landscape of stacked isometric cubes shaded on three faces. Fields: Size and Relief.
- Bauhaus: flat circles, quarter arcs and triangles on a strict grid, the Bauhaus poster look. Fields: Grid and Fill.
- Dunes: sunlit sand dunes with sharp crests and long shadows. Fields: Dunes and Sun.
Every screen size
Each wallpaper downloads as a lossless PNG at the full size of the preset: Full HD (1920 × 1080), QHD (2560 × 1440), 4K (3840 × 2160), 5K (5120 × 2880), MacBook Pro (2880 × 1800), ultrawide 21:9 (3440 × 1440 and 2560 × 1080), super ultrawide 32:9 (5120 × 1440 and 3840 × 1080), iPhone (1290 × 2796), Android (1440 × 3200), iPad (2048 × 2732) and square (2048 × 2048). The picture is composed once at 16:9 and every other size is a cut of that same composition, so one wallpaper carries across a phone, a laptop and a desktop.
How it works
Every wallpaper is procedural: a small program draws it in the browser from your palette, a style, two fields and a seed. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored. The same link always draws the same picture, so a wallpaper can be shared, revisited and downloaded again for another screen. Start from your own colors, a harmony scheme, an image or one of the 23 Codigrate theme palettes.
Questions
- Is the wallpaper free to use?
- Yes. Every wallpaper you generate is yours to use, for personal and commercial work, on as many screens as you like. No sign in, no watermark, no attribution needed.
- Which size should I download?
- The size of your screen: 1920 × 1080 for a Full HD monitor, 2560 × 1440 for QHD, 3840 × 2160 for 4K, 5120 × 2880 for a 5K iMac, 2880 × 1800 for a MacBook Pro, 3440 × 1440 for an ultrawide, 1290 × 2796 for an iPhone, 1440 × 3200 for an Android phone and 2048 × 2732 for an iPad. Every download is a lossless PNG at that exact size.
- How do I set it as my wallpaper?
- On a Mac, open System Settings, Wallpaper, and add the downloaded picture. On Windows, right click the picture and choose Set as desktop background. On an iPhone, save the picture to Photos, open Settings, Wallpaper, and choose it. On Android, open the picture in your gallery and choose Set as wallpaper.
- Can I get the same wallpaper again later?
- Yes. The link in your address bar holds the palette, the style, the two fields and the seed, so it draws the same picture every time. Copy the link to keep it or to share it.
