Search & filters
Searching
Section titled “Searching”Press / anywhere, or click Search, and type. Slate sends your query to every source at once, keeps the results that are at least 3,000 px wide, and merges them into one feed.
Plain words work best: foggy forest, aurora, brutalist architecture, saturn. Your recent searches are offered as you type, so you can go back to one.
Esc clears the search.
Display ratio
Section titled “Display ratio”Display ratio in the header narrows the feed to images whose shape matches your screen:
| Ratio | For |
|---|---|
| 16:9 | most monitors, laptops and TVs; presentations |
| 21:9 | ultrawide monitors |
| 27:9 | super-ultrawide setups |
| 32:9 | dual-monitor-wide screens such as the Samsung Odyssey |
An image counts as a match when its proportions are close to the ratio, so a wallpaper fills the screen without heavy cropping. The file you download is still the original, at its own size. Clear the ratio to see everything.
Advanced filters
Section titled “Advanced filters”Filters opens the advanced filters. Add keywords (ocean, sunrise…): only images whose title, tags or photographer mention every keyword stay in the feed. Combine them with a category, a ratio and a sort.
Why an image is missing
Section titled “Why an image is missing”- It’s narrower than 3,000 px.
- It doesn’t match the selected ratio.
- It doesn’t contain every keyword you added.
Remove the ratio or keywords to widen the feed.