No. 057, in seventeen platesBeemeur in the Night

Beemeur in the Night is shot, or styled to look shot, on a slow shutter in bad light. Backgrounds tear into horizontal streaks, film grain hangs in the shadows, and the only things in sharp focus are a grille, a headlamp, a wheel arch. The palette barely leaves charcoal: gunmetal paint, black tarmac, a green cast from sodium and fluorescent tubes, and the odd jab of tail-light red. The French-slang title is about right; this is the car as the people who love it see it.

The series falls into two generations. The first nine plates follow modern track-prepared coupes with the tall split kidney grille, fat arches and aero splitters. Kidney Grille, Low Light pans with a gunmetal coupe through darkness; Striped Livery crops a white car wearing blue and red motorsport stripes; Gold Wheels poses a matt black coupe on bronze rims under a single blue sweep of light. The other eight drop to a wide, low lens beside an early-2000s M3 saloon: Red Light, Wet Street drags silver bodywork through rain-slick city lights, Side by Side races a red car through a strip-lit tunnel, and Green Tunnel, the odd one out, swaps night for a sunlit forest road.

Most frames keep their heaviest detail in the middle third and leave a black or blurred band at the top, which suits a white clock. These are dark wallpapers through and through, made for dark mode and tinted icons; on an OLED screen the deep blacks look like part of the glass. The tunnel plates draw ceiling lights toward a vanishing point near the top, so a centred clock sits in their path.

Think enthusiasts, late drivers and track-day regulars, or anyone who wants a car wallpaper without colour shouting at them. Four of the seventeen plates are free in full resolution; the others are premium.