Sampled from 3 of il manifesto's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#F4F4F4 bg
#D6D6D6
#F47C54 accent
#111111 text
il manifesto ridefinisce il concetto di quotidiano digitale. Ogni giorno in anteprima il nostro miglior giornalismo e un punto di vista unico e radicale sulla politica, l'economia, i fatti internazionali, i reportage e la cultura. Le nostre caratteristiche: - edizione su iPad e iPhone in anteprima dalla mezzanotte, prima dell'uscita in edicola - edizioni quotidiane 6 giorni su 7 (normalmente non esce il lunedì) - versione dinamica PDF - possibilità di edizioni straordinarie o monografie speciali - collegamento ai podcast - collegamento al sito ilmanifesto.it - abbonamento "in famiglia" - edizioni leggerissime per un download veloce - tutte le edizioni scaricate restano disponibili per la lettura offline - sono disponibili tutte le edizioni dal 2013 ad oggi - per liberare spazio si imposta facilmente il numero di edizioni da tenere in memoria - nuove funzionalità in arrivo. Tutti i p…
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 6 screenshots above are il manifesto's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: il manifesto runs a light set with one background colour (#F4F4F4) carried across every screenshot — the listing reads as a single poster when the shots sit side by side in search results. The accent colour we picked up, #F47C54, 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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Open the screenshot editor →Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.