What we publish
Every wallpaper on this site is a JPEG in a tall portrait frame, typically 1448 × 2896 pixels. That is not Digital Cinema 2K: DCI’s 2K container is 2048 pixels on the long edge.[1] It is a phone-first master — enough pixels for a current lock screen at one-to-one or slight overscan, without shipping a 20 megabyte 8K plate you will never see. Consumer “4K” on a TV is usually 3840-wide UHD, which these portraits are not. Titles and page facts use 2K or the pixel count, not a 4K marketing word.
The browsing thumbnail is a smaller JPEG used in the grid. It is not a different crop of the art — same picture, fewer pixels. If you long-press a thumb and “save image,” you are saving the preview. Use the download control on the wallpaper page. That is the file we intend you to set.
Phones
A current iPhone or Android panel is taller than it is wide, and the system will zoom a wallpaper so there is no empty bar.[4][5] A 1448-pixel-wide master is wider than many logical CSS pixels and close to the physical pixel width of a lot of phones when you account for how the OS crops for parallax or always-on display. You may still see a slight pinch-to-fit. That is normal. Slide the image so the clock zone we described in the choosing guide sits under the clock, not under a flower head.
Foldables and inner tablets are a different shape. Use the same file; let the system cover, then check the fold crease. A landscape meadow or a horizontal brushstroke survives a fold better than a tiny centered face, which can land on the hinge.
Desktop and tablet
These files are not native 16:9 masters. On a monitor you will crop. The useful move is to pick a file that already has a wide band of one color — cream plaster, a lake horizon, a diagonal stroke — and pin that band to the screen. Windows and macOS both let you fill the display; they will discard the top or bottom of a tall file. That is fine. We would rather you crop a sharp 2K portrait than download a muddy widescreen fake.
Tablets in portrait can use the file as-is. Tablets in landscape behave like a short monitor. Preview before you commit if you use a home-screen grid on iPad; icons will cover the middle.
File size, compression, and screenshots
The downloads use JPEG, the ISO/IEC 10918 still-image codec, not a lossless plate.[2] Our files are usually a few hundred kilobytes to a little over a megabyte. That is small enough to keep dozens on a phone. If a file looks blocky after you set it, you probably saved a screenshot of the page or the thumbnail. Delete that and download again. Do not run a third-party “enhancer” that re-encodes the JPEG; you will add ringing around the brushstrokes we already put there on purpose.
We do not watermark the download. If you see a logo in the picture, it is part of the art or you are not on this site. Personal use only: set it on your devices, do not sell the file.
Why titles say 2K, not 4K
A title that says 4K while the facts line says 1448 × 2896 is a lie. We do not do that. The title, the download label, and the size line use the same 2K class as the JPEG you get. If those numbers say 1448 × 2896, that is what you get.
If you need a true 3840-wide landscape for a TV, this library is the wrong shop. These are phone portraits that you may crop. That limit is on purpose. It keeps files small and honest.