Design & Creative

desktopcolors.com

Last updated 2026-08-17 · benchmark checked 2026-09-21 · unchanged since 2026-08-17 — deterministic & reproducible

An archive of solid desktop background colors from classic operating systems.

Are you the maker of desktopcolors.com? Claim this listing. It is free, takes a meta tag, a DNS record or GitHub admin rights, and never changes the score.

Launched something? Add your product, free.

To cite this score: legit.show/s/desktopcolors-com/2026-09-21. That address never changes; this page moves with every re-measure.

Legit.Show scored desktopcolors.com 74/100 on 2026-09-21, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/desktopcolors-com/2026-09-21

Is desktopcolors.com production-ready?

Legit.Show scores desktopcolors.com 74 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on desktopcolors.com (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 100/100
• Accessibility — 95/100
• Security — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 70/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 35/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 1068 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Designers · Developers · Digital historians · Nostalgia enthusiasts · Color researchers

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from desktopcolors.com's own website on 2026-08-17.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-21.

Put together from public information, without desktopcolors.com's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

Visit desktopcolors.com → · Alternatives to desktopcolors.com → · How this was measured →