#008080
Windows 95
1995 · Windows
Teal defined the era — the first face millions saw at boot.
#b3b3da
Mac OS 8
1997 · Mac OS
Platinum-era desktop patterns in soft, muted accents.
#3a6ea5
Windows 2000
2000 · Windows
A polished blue-gray palette that bridged two eras.
#c0c0c0
Windows 3.1
1992 · Windows
The desktop that taught the world to point and click — with a scheme for every taste.
#008080
Windows 98
1998 · Windows
The familiar teal desktop, now folded into the web.
#3a6ea5
Windows Me
2000 · Windows
The last of the 9x line — dressed in Windows Classic blue.
#57ff81
Windows 1.0
1985 · Windows
The first Windows — a desktop dithered from two colors to fake a third.
#0055aa
Amiga Workbench 1.x
1985 · Amiga
Four-color glory: the unmistakable Workbench palette.
#505050
SerenityOS
2018 · SerenityOS
A love letter to '90s desktops — built from scratch, themed to the teeth.
#c0c0c0
Windows 3.0
1990 · Windows
The release that made Windows a success — and let you recolor the whole desktop.
#008080
Windows NT 4.0
1996 · Windows
The NT kernel meets the Windows 95 shell — teal desktop and all.
#336698
BeOS
1995 · BeOS
The multimedia OS with a calm, steady blue desktop.
#574c8f
Solaris 9
2002 · Solaris
CDE backdrops and the violet field behind an iconic Solaris watermark.
#808080
Xfce
1996 · Desktop Env.
A lightweight Unix desktop with a broad, practical palette.
#008080
Windows NT 3.x
1993 · Windows
The first Windows NT — a 32-bit workstation dressed in Program Manager teal.
#aaaaaa
Amiga Workbench 2.0
1990 · Amiga
The gray refresh: Workbench 2.0 traded blue for a cool 3D gray.
#21578d
ReactOS 0.4.x
2016 · ReactOS
The open-source Windows, rebuilt from nothing — classic desktop, real colors.
#336698
Haiku
2009 · Haiku
The open-source heir to BeOS — same focused desktop, same signature blue.
#5454d4
FreeGEM
1999 · GEM
GEM lives on — a desktop dithered from gray and blue.
#1d99f3
KDE Plasma 6
2024 · Desktop Env.
The modern, endlessly tweakable Linux desktop — anchored by Breeze blue.
#57ffff
Windows 2.0
1987 · Windows
Dithering, abandoned: Windows 2.0 just used the cyan straight.
#00c000
BleskOS
2020 · BleskOS
A tiny hobby OS with a boldly green desktop.