Viewing Angle Test

This viewing angle test shows colour bars and grey gradients that make it easy to judge how your screen holds up when viewed off-centre. Look at the patterns straight on, then slowly tilt the screen up, down and to the sides — and watch how much the colours wash out, the brightness drops, or the contrast inverts.

Wide-angle IPS panels stay stable; VA panels shift in contrast and show a gamma change; TN panels shift the most, often inverting from the bottom. It works on any monitor, laptop, phone or TV.

It shows how the image changes when you look at the screen from an angle instead of straight on. On colour bars and grey gradients you can see colour shift, brightness loss and contrast inversion as you tilt the panel — a quick way to judge panel quality.

IPS panels have the widest viewing angles and stay accurate off-axis. VA panels offer deep contrast head-on but shift in brightness and gamma at an angle. TN panels are the cheapest and fastest but shift colour heavily, often inverting when viewed from below.

If several people watch the same screen, or you use a large monitor up close where the edges are at an angle, poor viewing angles cause uneven colour and brightness across the picture. Wide angles also make colour-critical work more consistent.

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