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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of The Guardian Editions's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#042C64 bg
#274979
#94DCFC accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
Guardian Editions is only available to readers with an existing Guardian digital subscription. Visit the Help Centre for help using your Digital Subscription www.theguardian.com/help/guardian-editions-app Beautifully designed and easy to navigate on mobile and tablet, Guardian Editions brings you the stories that matter every morning as soon as it goes to print, with new titles also available including the Guardian Weekly and Long Read magazine. - A new way to read: the UK newspaper, reimagined for mobile and tablet - Updated daily: each UK edition is available to read by 6am (GMT), 6 days a week - Update weekly: global edition of the Guardian Weekly magazine, and Saturday magazine - Updated periodically: Long Read magazine, plus other periodical publications - Easy to navigate: read cover to cover, or swipe to the sections you care about - Multiple devices: beautifully designed fo…
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What you can learn from The Guardian Editions
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 15 screenshots above are The Guardian Editions's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: The Guardian Editions runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #042C64) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #94DCFC, 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.
Want to see how other News apps approach the same problem? Browse more News apps in the showcase.
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