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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Council for Geoscience's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCFCFC bg
#DDDDDD
#FCE49C accent
#111111 text
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About this app
The Council for Geoscience (CGS) is one of the National Science Councils of South Africa and is the legal successor of the Geological Survey of South Africa, which was formed in 1912 by the amalgamation of three former surveys, oldest of which - the Geological Commission of the Cape of Good Hope - founded in 1895. The Geoscience Act, Act No. 100 of 1993 established the CGS in it's present form. Today, the CGS is a modern institution, boasting excellent facilities and expertise and ranking among the best in Africa.
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What you can learn from Council for Geoscience
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 20 screenshots above are Council for Geoscience's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Council for Geoscience runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #FCFCFC) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #FCE49C, 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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