Fill your whole screen with pure red to test the red sub-pixel channel and reveal dead pixels on a colored field. Free and runs in your browser.

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Press Esc to exit, or use the ← → arrow keys to switch colors while in full screen.


What is it for?

Find dead pixels
A solid field makes pixels that never light up easy to see — check each color in turn.
Find stuck pixels
On a black screen, sub-pixels stuck on bright stand out instantly.
Clean your screen
A bright, even white surface reveals dust, smudges and fingerprints as you wipe.
Lightbox & tracing
Turn your display into a backlight for tracing drawings or viewing slides.
Bias & fill light
Use a full color screen as ambient bias lighting or a soft fill light for calls.
Chroma-key backdrop
A pure green or blue screen works as a quick background for green-screen effects.

About Full Red Screen

The Full Red Screen tool floods your display with pure red (#FF0000), driving the red sub-pixel of every pixel to maximum while the green and blue stay off. That isolation is exactly what a proper pixel test needs: a sub-pixel that fails only in the red channel is invisible on plain white or black.

On a solid red field, defects jump out — a dead red sub-pixel reads as a dark dot, while a stuck green or blue sub-pixel shows as an off-color speck. A red screen also exposes tint problems: color banding, patchy uniformity or a panel edge rendering red noticeably differently from the center.

The page is free and entirely browser-based. Run it as one step of a full check — white, black, then each primary — using the arrow keys to switch colors without leaving full screen, and the custom picker if you want to test any other hue. A deep red screen also doubles as low-key ambient mood lighting.

How to use Full Red Screen

  1. Click the monitor preview or "Go full screen" to fill the display with pure red.
  2. Inspect the panel for dark dots or off-color specks against the red field.
  3. Check the corners and edges for uneven tint or brightness.
  4. Press → to advance to the green and blue tests, or Esc to exit.

Frequently asked questions

Each LCD pixel is made of red, green and blue sub-pixels. A defect confined to one channel can hide on white (where all three glow) and on black (where none do). A pure red field drives only the red sub-pixels, exposing faults in that specific channel.

It usually means the red sub-pixel at that spot is dead or stuck off. Confirm by switching to green and blue: if the dot disappears on those colors, the fault is isolated to the red channel of that pixel.

Yes — the page is free, needs no sign-up, and runs entirely in your browser. It simply renders a solid color; no data leaves your device.

Yes. A full-screen deep red on a spare monitor or tablet makes effective low-key ambient lighting, and the custom color picker lets you soften the shade to a warmer, dimmer red if pure #FF0000 is too intense.

Start on any of the five test screens, go full screen, and use the ← → arrow keys to step through white, black, red, green and blue. Examine the whole panel on each color; a defect visible on one primary but not the others pinpoints the failed sub-pixel.

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