Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of History Extra Magazine's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#CCDCDC bg
#B3C1C1
#044C5C accent
#111111 text
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About this app
Enjoy HistoryExtra Magazine, the UK's best-selling history magazine, on your iPhone and iPad. Dive into the latest issue, download the entire back issue collection and save more with a subscription. Each month we assemble leading experts to explore a wide range of British, American and international historical topics – from ancient civilisations to the two world wars. Our historians tackle the key events and personalities of the past, as well as shining a light on lesser-known areas and explaining how the latest research changes our understanding. Our App makes it easy to read and enjoy each issue with helpful features like text adjust, allowing you to amend the font size for clear reading on any device size. You can also bookmark your favourite features to revisit, and browse our 10-year archive of content with the handy search tool. Every issue also contains a comprehensive revie…
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What you can learn from History Extra Magazine
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 History Extra Magazine's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: History Extra Magazine runs a light set with one background colour (#CCDCDC) 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, #044C5C, 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.