Mountain wallpapers

Mountains ask for scale, and the pictures on this page try to give it: a ridge line fading into haze, a peak above a layer of cloud, a snowfield lit pink at dawn, a jagged skyline against stars. Some are real-looking landscapes, others are imagined ranges with impossible spires.

The most useful quality for a wallpaper is the sky. In most of these pictures the top third is open and graduated, which gives clocks, widgets and the menu bar a quiet place to sit. The peaks fill the lower part, and the stack of ridges, each paler than the one in front, adds depth without clutter.

Time of day changes everything. Dawn and dusk pictures are pink, gold and violet. Midday pictures are crisp, with deep blue skies. Night pictures put the Milky Way above a dark ridge and are good company for the space page.

Tall frames suit phones, where a single peak runs up the screen. Wide frames suit monitors, where a range stretches across the display.

For more open spaces, try the nature page, or go down to the forest line with the forest page. Snow-covered peaks also appear on the winter page.

59 mountain wallpapers (33 for desktop, 11 for phones, 15 square), all free to download in 4K as PNG or JPEG.

From the themes Paper dioramas, Train on the glacier, Stone & water, Nature landscapes, Layered silhouettes, Retro sun and grid, Knitted wool mountains, Wireframe mountains.