New Tool Lets Web Designers Make Logos Glow on HDR Screens
A newly launched site called So Very Bright lets designers upload a logo and export a version optimized to appear extra luminous on HDR-capable monitors and phones. The trick relies on encoding pixel values that fall outside the standard SDR (0-255) brightness range, which HDR screens can render as genuinely brighter whites and colors than a normal display allows.
The tool generated a modest but engaged discussion on Hacker News, with commenters debating practical use cases, browser and OS support quirks, and whether such effects could be misused for attention-grabbing ads or make interfaces uncomfortably glaring on the wrong hardware.
It's a niche, playful project, but it highlights how HDR support is quietly becoming a factor in everyday web and UI design, not just video and gaming.