Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Pantone Connect's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#0C4C84 bg
#2E6595
#C46414 accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
The essential Pantone Color iOS app for designers and color experts! Pantone Connect streamlines the color inspiration to design process, making it easy for you to measure and match physical materials to Pantone Color, share your inspirational color palettes to social media, and navigate any updated Pantone Color System to find the perfect hue while on the go. When paired with the Color Match Card from Pantone, the app calibrates your iOS device's camera for color measurement, and captured colors are quickly matched to their nearest Pantone Color more accurately than extracting color from a photo. Be sure to check that your iOS device is compatible with Color Match Card before you order one. While most device models are compatible, we are still in the process of adding some iOS devices to our list. The app is part of the new Pantone Connect digital color platform for mobile, web, …
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What you can learn from Pantone Connect
Every shipping app on the App Store has gone through the same decisions you're working through right now: which screenshot goes first, what caption sits over it, which device frame to show, what color the background should be. The 12 screenshots above are Pantone Connect's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Pantone Connect runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #0C4C84) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #C46414, is the one to reuse for badges, arrows and highlighted words if you borrow this look. Hit Use this style to open the editor with these exact colours and drop your own screenshot in.
Notice the first screenshot in particular. It's the one users see in search results and on the product page, and it's where most apps spend their best caption and tightest design. Look at the proportion of background to phone, where the text sits, what one thing the image is trying to communicate.
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Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.