Every solid desktop background shipped by the operating systems that raised us — catalogued, named, and free to take with you.
It started with a single hex code: #008080. That specific teal was the first thing millions of us saw when a computer finished booting — and one day I realized I couldn't find it written down anywhere. Not the exact value, not what it was called, not which systems shipped it.
So I started collecting. Windows, Amiga, the Unix desktops, the forgotten ones in between. Every default background, every alternate the settings panel offered, pulled from screenshots, manuals, and disk images, then checked against the real thing.
These colors are small, ordinary, and easy to lose — which is exactly why they're worth keeping. This page is my attempt to hold onto them, and to let you take any one back to your own desktop.