Sampled from 5 of UniLeeds's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCFCFC bg
#DDDDDD
#F45464 accent
#111111 text
UniLeeds is the mobile app for current students at the University of Leeds. The app has had a major upgrade in September 2019 to improve the user experience. The updated app previews the next event in your timetable and shows a summary of library record. Features: - View your course and exam timetables - View your Library account - Receive alerts and announcements using push notifications - Search campus maps for buildings and locations - Search the staff lists for contact details - Find places to eat on campus When launching the app for the first time please be connected to Wi-Fi as it downloads the campus maps and other information. Please be aware that changes made to your timetable can take 12 hours to appear in the app. Changes to timetable made at short notice will be communicated in other ways. If you sign up to a new module or change module, this can take 24-48 hours to updat…
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 9 screenshots above are UniLeeds's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: UniLeeds runs a light set with one background colour (#FCFCFC) 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, #F45464, 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.