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?

  • PineRune@lemmy.world
    8·
    11 days ago

    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.xyzEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • determinist@kbin.earth
    41·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • farmgineer@nord.pubEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    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.zipOP
      2·
      10 days ago

      awwww that’s cute

      I shall try using something for lockscreen and plain black for home too

  • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    11 days ago

    I like having a work of art, usually in a simplistic style, because so much of life is plain black, or grey, already … I want colour and joy in things that I look at regularly.

    I also stickerbomb the backs of my phones too, and then add a clear cover :-)

  • TacoTroubles@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    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.zipOP
      1·
      10 days ago

      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·
    10 days ago

    Crystals. Always crystals upclose ! They’re beautiful, colorfoul, full of natural structure…

  • Mistress Remilia@lemmy.cyberia9.org
    1·
    11 days ago

    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.