I always use some sort of dark mode wallpaper. I've been using a screenshot from the game Elite Dangerous for several years now on my phone, while my PC uses the default dark wallpaper that got set when I updated bios drivers for my motherboard (AMD Ryzen wallpaper). There's another community that has some good dark wallpapers for phone if you want to try changing things up: https://lemmy.world/c/amoledbackgrounds

I use rainmeter and novalauncher to make my spaces kind of art pieces. Fung shue n shit.

But matte black sounds pretty appealing right now.

Always plain black for me. My lock screen on my phone was for years as well, but now is a picture of my wife and I.

I like photos of flowers or my dogs.

Sometimes I like photos of birds, or also other animals.

I prefer a darker background accented with bright colours, usually pinks, reds, and purples.

I like the results searching for “black sand wallpaper” or “dark low poly wallpaper”

Some people put photos and stuff, and I just don't get it! Personally, I have a painterly night sky for my background—very soft and well, background-y.

Ive found a dark green theme to be the best for me. So I mostly rotate through some pictures of ferns and jungle plants or forests.

Too much detail or contrast are an insta-nope. So for example if its orange it should be all orange, not having an island of contrasting colour somewhere. You can find the older stock wallpapers from various phones like the oneplus and pixel lines and some of those are quite good. I also like the ones that animate just for a second as you switch the screen on and off, but these are so hard to find. The animated ones I find are permanently animated and this is horrible and unusable.

It needs to be perfect and not clash with icons or widgets.

Crystals. Always crystals upclose ! They're beautiful, colorfoul, full of natural structure...

Yes, completely black here! So easy to look at

I've always preferred them to be anime or other art work, and to be on the darker shade of things. Too bright and it gets to be distracting for me. Also I don't like them to have characters behind my system monitor (or icons, back when I had desktop icons), so they've gotta be a certain orientation.

there's a community here for those !mobilewallpaper@lemmy.world

it's where I got my dark low contrast one 😄

I collect cool looking wallpapers and make an effort to change my phone often. Usually every quarter/season.

It's similar to our house decorations. I'll have something spooky in October. Something with a lot of oranges, reds, and yellows in November and December. Bright and colorful for April-June. Everything else is usually a wild card: cool art, fantasy, landacapes vaporwave, whatever neat stuff I can find that isn't tied to a season or holiday.

I find it helps me to get in the spirit of the sesson and fully appreciate it. Fall really feels like fall. It kind of regulates my sense of the passage of time too.