do you have any specific quirk about wallpapers?
I’ve used plain black as my phone wallpaper for most of its lifetime, because every time I tried a wallpaper I just find them distracting and made icons harder to identify
recently I tried to use some just to not get dragged into the “wow” trend and make my phone feel shiny and novelty again, no need to change
but it’s so hard to find those that don’t trigger my brain and make me want to go back to black!
I mostly feel comfortable with low contrast, abstract, plain or gradient ones so it’s an actual “background” image that looks good but doesn’t compete for my attention, however SEO favours really detailed and complex ones
do you feel the same?
21 Comments
PineRune@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 34d
I always use some sort of dark mode wallpaper. I've been using a screenshot from the game Elite Dangerous for several years now on my phone, while my PC uses the default dark wallpaper that got set when I updated bios drivers for my motherboard (AMD Ryzen wallpaper). There's another community that has some good dark wallpapers for phone if you want to try changing things up: https://lemmy.world/c/amoledbackgrounds
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 34d
I use rainmeter and novalauncher to make my spaces kind of art pieces. Fung shue n shit.
But matte black sounds pretty appealing right now.
Strider@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
It needs to be perfect and not clash with icons or widgets.
farmgineer@nord.pub · 3 pts · 34d
Always plain black for me. My lock screen on my phone was for years as well, but now is a picture of my wife and I.
overcast@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 33d
awwww that’s cute
I shall try using something for lockscreen and plain black for home too
determinist@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 34d
I like photos of flowers or my dogs.
Sometimes I like photos of birds, or also other animals.
I prefer a darker background accented with bright colours, usually pinks, reds, and purples.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 34d
tacotroubles@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
Ive found a dark green theme to be the best for me. So I mostly rotate through some pictures of ferns and jungle plants or forests.
Browse8474@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d
Same!
I found this picture online so I can't remember original source.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
Too much detail or contrast are an insta-nope. So for example if its orange it should be all orange, not having an island of contrasting colour somewhere. You can find the older stock wallpapers from various phones like the oneplus and pixel lines and some of those are quite good. I also like the ones that animate just for a second as you switch the screen on and off, but these are so hard to find. The animated ones I find are permanently animated and this is horrible and unusable.
overcast@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 33d
agree, sometimes I find cute abstract wallpapers but they feel wrong once applied, it seems like it’s something about the constraint, so I prefer gradients instead also, that one wallpaper from Android Jelly Bean look so cute still, it has colours but very subtle ones
arcine@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 33d
Crystals. Always crystals upclose ! They're beautiful, colorfoul, full of natural structure...
strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 34d
Some people put photos and stuff, and I just don't get it! Personally, I have a painterly night sky for my background—very soft and well, background-y.
violentfart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d
I like the results searching for “black sand wallpaper” or “dark low poly wallpaper”
paultimate14@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d
I collect cool looking wallpapers and make an effort to change my phone often. Usually every quarter/season.
It's similar to our house decorations. I'll have something spooky in October. Something with a lot of oranges, reds, and yellows in November and December. Bright and colorful for April-June. Everything else is usually a wild card: cool art, fantasy, landacapes vaporwave, whatever neat stuff I can find that isn't tied to a season or holiday.
I find it helps me to get in the spirit of the sesson and fully appreciate it. Fall really feels like fall. It kind of regulates my sense of the passage of time too.
overcast@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 33d
I set up an automation to change it everyday cause if I don’t, I tent to forget to change it and get bored easily lol then I wonder why and that’s the reason
remilia@lemmy.cyberia9.org · 1 pts · 34d
I've always preferred them to be anime or other art work, and to be on the darker shade of things. Too bright and it gets to be distracting for me. Also I don't like them to have characters behind my system monitor (or icons, back when I had desktop icons), so they've gotta be a certain orientation.
overcast@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 33d
what the barnacles! oh no me heart stopped
remilia@lemmy.cyberia9.org · 1 pts · 33d
Sawfish WM doesn't have them :-P
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 34d
My only rule is that I don't stretch anything too small to fit. I would sooner go upscale it with AI than stretch a 320x240 image to 1080p or 4K.
Im_old@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d
there's a community here for those !mobilewallpaper@lemmy.world
it's where I got my dark low contrast one 😄
kayaks@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 33d
Yes, completely black here! So easy to look at