LG 27UD88-W

£620/$700 Life’s good when you’re svelte, stylish and generally gorgeous

LG has a habit of designing cool kit that looks highly desirable, and this monitor is definitely no exception. The thin black bezel with silver sides combines well with the white case, and the slender crescent-shaped silver base makes everything else on test look comparatively clunky. The only real compromise is that, while tilt, height and pivot facilities are available, there’s no swivel mechanism built into the base. The complete monitor has a very slim-line build, a design feature enabled in large part by the power supply being external rather than housed within the main case. This bucks the trend set by all the other screens on test. There’s a good range of input ports, including DP, dual HDMI and USB Type-c, along with a USB 3 hub that has two downstream ports. Instead of a row of physical or ‘virtual’ touch-sensitive buttons along the lower edge of the bezel, there’s a neat and novel joysticklike controller, positioned under the bottom centre of the bezel. This enables easy navigation and operation of the intuitive, on-screen menu. There’s also a wide variety of display mode options to select from, including SRGB, but there’s no dedicated Adobe RGB preset.

Performance

In our tests, the LG scored very highly for colour accuracy in SRGB mode, gaining virtually nothing from a custom calibration. However, gamut for the Adobe RGB colour space is a little lacking, especially when compared with the likes of the Benq and Eizo monitors on test. Uniformity across the whole area of the screen is about average, but it has to be said that detail in very dark lowlights is slightly disappointing.

lg has a habit of designing cool kit that looks highly desirable, and this is no exception