Screen Soft Light / Scenes / CANDLE LIGHT SCREEN

No. 001 · CANDLE LIGHT SCREEN

Candle light screen — one warm flame on a dark display

  • 01 Real candle colour, around 1,800K
  • 02 Gentle flicker that never repeats
  • 03 Sleep timer fades it out

A single candle burning in the middle of a dark screen. The flame sways and flickers on its own, the wax catches its light, and the glow it throws is as warm as a real candle — useful for winding down, meditation, a dinner table or a room where you want light without a lamp.

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§ 01

The warmest light a screen can make

Candlelight sits around 1,800–1,900K, warmer than any household bulb. The page keeps almost every pixel dark and lights only a small flame and the glow around it, so the light that reaches the room is low, warm and carries very little blue — closer to a candle than a dimmed white screen can manage.

§ 02

Gazing at a candle flame is an old concentration practice, sometimes called trataka.

A focus point for meditation

Gazing at a candle flame is an old concentration practice, sometimes called trataka. The flame here moves slowly and unpredictably enough to hold attention without the distraction of a video's sound, cuts or ads in the frame.

§ 03

No wax, no smoke, nothing to blow out

A screen candle is safe to leave burning in a child's room, beside a bed or on a crowded table, and it turns itself off with the sleep timer.

Procedure

Three moves to peak output

  1. 01

    Dim the room

    The candle is designed for a dark room; the screen stays almost black apart from the flame and its glow.

  2. 02

    Go fullscreen

    Press Fullscreen (or F) so nothing else on the display competes with the flame.

  3. 03

    Let it go out

    Pick a sleep timer and the flame fades over its last minute, so you can fall asleep with it lit.

Inquiries

Questions worth asking

Q.01 Can I use it as a night light?
Yes. Turn the device's own brightness down, go fullscreen and set the sleep timer. For a steady glow without any flicker, the night light page is a better fit.
Q.02 Is this a video?
No. The flames are drawn live by your browser, so the fire never loops back to the same moment, there is no buffering and it uses almost no data. The crackle is generated the same way rather than streamed.
Q.03 Will it turn itself off?
Choose a sleep timer of 15 minutes to 2 hours and the fire dies down over the final minute, crackle and all, then goes out. Leave it on Off to let it burn for as long as the page is open.
Q.04 How do I keep the screen from going to sleep?
Browsers that support the Screen Wake Lock API (Chrome, Edge and recent Safari) keep the screen on while the fire burns. On other devices, turn off auto-lock or the screen saver while you use it.
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