Tips, tutorials, design inspiration and behind the scenes from PattrnLab. Make every screen more you.
The right desktop wallpaper size for 1080p, 1440p, 4K and ultrawide monitors, how to find your resolution on Windows and Mac, and why display scaling does not change it.
Is 3440x1440 2K or 4K? Neither, strictly. What the K means, what UWQHD and 1440p mean, and which ultrawide resolutions are genuinely 4K class.
Inches do not tell you the wallpaper size, pixels do. The common resolutions for 13, 14, 15.6 and 16 inch laptops, plus how to turn pixels into real inches.
Laptop wallpaper dimensions for Dell, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, Acer and Surface, with the width and height to use for each common screen, and how to confirm yours.
The exact MacBook Air wallpaper size for 13 and 15 inch models, why macOS shows a different number, and how to check your own Mac in a few clicks. Free download.
The laptop wallpaper ratio decides what gets cropped. How to tell whether your screen is 16:9, 16:10 or 3:2 in ten seconds, and what a mismatch costs you.
5120x1440 is the resolution behind 32:9 super ultrawide monitors - double-width 1440p, not 4K. What it means, which monitors use it, and where to get a wallpaper sized for it.
An ultrawide wallpaper that looks stretched or badly cropped almost always comes down to one of two causes - the file isn't native, or a display fit setting. How to fix both.
Not every pattern looks good mostly black. Which kinds of designs genuinely work as a black OLED wallpaper, including for iPhone, and which ones to avoid. Free download.
Most wallpapers are designed for landscape screens and fail when a monitor is rotated to portrait. Which patterns genuinely work tall, and which ones to avoid.
Matching wallpapers for dual monitors means either one image spanning both screens or two coordinated images. Exact sizes and setup steps for both, on Windows and Mac.
Not every design holds up at 5120x1440. Which kinds of patterns genuinely work on a super ultrawide screen, and which ones fall apart. Free super ultrawide wallpapers.
A 32:9 wallpaper has to be built at 5120x1440, not scaled from a normal 16:9 image. How to tell the difference, and where to get one that actually fits. Free download.
The correct wallpaper size for MacBook Air and Pro, Dell XPS, ThinkPad, Surface and standard 1080p laptops - including the 16:10 aspect ratio most wallpapers get wrong.
macOS can show a different wallpaper on each display, but the setting is easy to miss and breaks in one specific case. The exact steps for Sequoia, Sonoma and Ventura.
21:9 (3440x1440) vs 32:9 (5120x1440) ultrawide monitors compared - desk space, window management, gaming support and cost. Plus free wallpapers for both aspect ratios.
3440x1440 ultrawide vs 3840x2160 4K - pixel counts, pixel density, and which actually looks sharper at the sizes these monitors are sold in. Free wallpapers for both.
Most "true black" wallpapers are dark grey. Here is how to check a wallpaper is really pure black #000000 in under a minute, on iPhone, Android, Windows or Mac.
A black wallpaper saves real battery on OLED and none at all on LCD. Here is why, how much, and how to check which screen you have. Free true black wallpaper download.
Rotating a monitor swaps its resolution and most wallpapers break. The right sizes for a vertical monitor, how to rotate one, and why true black suits it.
Which iPhones have OLED, why a true black #000000 wallpaper saves battery on them, and how to get one sized exactly for your model.
What 32:9 means, which monitors use 5120x1440, and why normal wallpapers break on a super ultrawide - plus how to get one at the exact resolution.
Desktop, ultrawide, dual monitor, MacBook Retina, iPhone, Android - every common wallpaper resolution in one table, so you download the exact size you need.
A black wallpaper that isn't truly #000000 wastes OLED battery and does nothing for burn-in. The real mechanism, and how to render one that's genuinely pure black.
Windows hides a per-monitor wallpaper picker by default. The exact setting to use two different images, plus how to make them look intentional together.
3440x1440 gets called 4K constantly, but the pixel math says otherwise. What ultrawide resolution really means, and which wallpaper size you need.
Why the same wallpaper looks different across phone, laptop, and ultrawide screens - and how to generate one design that holds up on all of them.
