Orange Background Generator

Make an orange background or orange wallpaper in 10 styles. Two are drawn only for orange: citrus slices (round slices with rind, pith and ten segments) and a sunburst of rays round a sun. The other eight are a gradient, soft clouds, a checkerboard, grid paper, marble, paper, soft blobs and polka dots. Pick one of 10 sets of oranges, from peach, apricot and marigold to tangerine, pumpkin, amber, burnt orange and terracotta. Every colour stays orange: each set is checked against one stated range, and so is every pixel of the picture. Set the number of shapes, squares, slices or rays, the angle, the softness and the grain. Every picture comes from a seed number: the same seed and size always give the same picture, and New seed gives you a new one. Choose desktop, 4K, phone, a 16:9 video-call background, tablet, square, banner or your own size up to 4096 pixels, then download a PNG or JPG, or a PDF to print. Nothing is uploaded.

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How to make an orange background

1. Pick a preset: gradient, citrus slices, sunburst, checks, grid, marble, paper, clouds, blobs or dots.
2. Choose the style and one of the sets of oranges.
3. Set the number of shapes, squares, slices or rays, the angle, the softness and the grain.
4. Press New seed for a new picture; the same seed always gives the same one.
5. Choose a size and download the PNG or JPG, or the print PDF.

What you can use it for

• Phone lock screens and warm desktop wallpapers
• Video-call backgrounds in a soft orange
• Juice bar, café and summer menus with citrus slices
• Retro sunburst posters, thumbnails and title slides
• Halloween, autumn and Thanksgiving posts
• Printed backing paper for cards and scrapbooks

The 16 presets

Preset	Style	Oranges	Size
Bright orange gradient	Gradient	Tangerine	1920 × 1080
Orange citrus slices	Citrus slices	Tangerine	1920 × 1080
Orange sunburst	Sunburst	Marigold	1920 × 1080
Orange checkerboard	Checkerboard	Neon orange	1920 × 1080
Orange grid paper	Grid	Apricot	1920 × 1080
Orange marble	Marble	Coral orange	1920 × 1080
Terracotta paper texture	Paper	Terracotta	1920 × 1080
Soft peach clouds	Soft clouds	Peach	1920 × 1080
Soft amber blobs	Soft blobs	Amber	1920 × 1080
Orange polka dots	Polka dots	Pumpkin	1920 × 1080
Burnt orange gradient	Gradient	Burnt orange	1920 × 1080
Burnt orange sunburst	Sunburst	Burnt orange	1920 × 1080
Pumpkin citrus slices	Citrus slices	Pumpkin	1920 × 1080
Phone wallpaper: orange sunburst	Sunburst	Tangerine	1170 × 2532
Video call: soft orange gradient	Gradient	Apricot	1920 × 1080
4K citrus slices	Citrus slices	Coral orange	3840 × 2160

Each preset only fills in the fields; change any setting afterwards.

The 10 styles

Style	What is drawn
Citrus slices (orange only)	Round slices with a rind ring, a pith ring and ten segments in two shades round a pale centre
Sunburst (orange only)	Equal rays in two shades fanning out from a light sun, darker towards the edges
Gradient	A smooth blend of three colours of the set at the angle you set
Soft clouds	Soft rounded clouds in a lighter shade on a deeper sky
Checkerboard	Squares of two shades, straight or turned (45° gives diamonds)
Grid	Fine light grid lines with a heavier line every fourth square, like graph paper
Marble	Stone with soft winding light veins
Paper	A soft paper texture with tiny fibres
Soft blobs	Large blurred circles of colour
Polka dots	Round dots in rows, straight or turned

The 10 sets of oranges

Oranges	The five colours	Hue and lightness (worked out by the tool)
Tangerine	#fcc99c, #fba860, #f98824, #e06b06, #9f4c04	hue 28°; lightness 32–80 %
Pumpkin	#f7bd97, #f19455, #ec6a13, #bd550f, #893d0b	hue 24°; lightness 29–78 %
Apricot	#fadbbd, #f7c797, #f3ad68, #ef9439, #d07011	hue 30°; lightness 44–86 %
Burnt orange	#f0a275, #e97735, #c15415, #974211, #7c360e	hue 22°; lightness 27–70 %
Marigold	#fcd99c, #fbbe56, #f9a410, #d18605, #956004	hue 38°; lightness 30–80 %
Coral orange	#f8b696, #f58f5c, #f26e2c, #dd530e, #a33d0a	hue 20°; lightness 34–78 %
Neon orange	#ffc599, #ffa35c, #ff7d1a, #e66300, #a34700	hue 26°; lightness 32–80 %
Terracotta	#e4a98b, #d8845a, #c6612f, #9d4d25, #783b1c	hue 20°; lightness 29–72 %
Peach	#fbddbb, #facf9e, #f8bc77, #f5a447, #f2870d	hue 32°; lightness 50–86 %
Amber	#ffca85, #ffab3d, #ff9000, #cc7400, #995700	hue 34°; lightness 30–76 %

The orange range used for every colour and every pixel: hue 18° to 45°, a saturation of 30 % or more and a lightness of 22 % to 88 %.

Sizes

Size	Pixels	Width ÷ height
Phone	1170 × 2532	0.462
Desktop	1920 × 1080	1.778
4K	3840 × 2160	1.778
Video call background	1920 × 1080	1.778
Tablet	2048 × 2732	0.750
Square	2048 × 2048	1.000
Banner	1500 × 500	3.000

Every size is drawn at its own pixels, not stretched.

What downloads

Download	What is in it
PNG	The still picture at the full size you chose, every pixel exactly as drawn
JPG	The same picture as a smaller JPG (quality 92)
PDF	One Letter or A4 page with the picture fitted inside 10 mm margins

Paper	A 4K picture prints at	Sharpness
Letter (landscape)	259.4 × 145.9 mm	376 px per inch
A4 (landscape)	277.0 × 155.8 mm	352 px per inch

To fit a photo of your own to your screen instead, use the Phone Wallpaper Maker; to change the size of a picture afterwards, the Image Resizer.

Which tool to use

You want	Use
An orange-only background or wallpaper	Orange Background Generator (this page)
A red-only background, lacquer or stage curtain	Red Background Generator
A green-only background, chalkboard or green screen	Green Background Generator
A seamless tie-dye tile, sunburst included	Tie-Dye Pattern Generator
A colour blend in any colours, as CSS	Gradient Generator

For a red wallpaper, try the Red Background Generator; for a green one, the Green Background Generator; for a seamless tie-dye tile in any colours, the Tie-Dye Pattern Generator.

Frequently asked questions

Is this a photo?

No. Every gradient, slice, ray, check, line, vein, cloud, blob and dot is drawn by our own code from the seed: it is artwork, not a photograph.

How do you make sure it stays orange?

Every colour in every set is inside one stated range: hue 18° to 45°, a saturation of 30 % or more and a lightness of 22 % to 88 %. The drawing only blends colours from the chosen set, which all share one hue, and darkens very slightly for grain, which keeps the hue. Our tests check all 50 colours, and every pixel of every preset, against that range.

Is it orange, red or pink?

Orange. The range starts at a hue of 18°, above the reds on our red background page (which stop at 12°) and the light reds counted as pink (up to 15°), and stops at 45°, before yellow. Our tests check over every colour a screen can show that no colour in the orange range is also in the red or the pink range.

What are the citrus slices and the sunburst?

Citrus slices are round fruit slices seen face on: a deep rind ring, a pale pith ring and ten segments in two shades round a pale centre, scattered over a soft gradient; the number field sets how many. Sunburst is a fan of equal rays in two shades round a light sun; the number field sets how many rays, Angle turns them and Softness blurs their edges.

Which oranges are there?

Tangerine, pumpkin, apricot, burnt orange, marigold, coral orange, neon orange, terracotta, peach and amber. The table below gives the five colours of each set as hex codes.

Can I use it as a video-call background?

Yes. Choose Video call background (16:9, 1920 × 1080), download the PNG or JPG and pick it as a virtual background in your video-call app.

What does the seed do?

It fixes where every slice, sun, cloud, blob and fibre goes, and where the checks and lines start. The same seed and size give exactly the same picture, pixel for pixel.

Is it free?

Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit.

Is anything uploaded?

No. Every pixel is worked out by JavaScript in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere or saved when you close the page.