Sampled from 5 of Sutta 423: Dhammapada's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#F4ECE4 bg
#D6CFC8
#64442C accent
#111111 text
Sutta 423 is a quiet daily Dhammapada app: one verse each morning from the Buddha’s teachings, made for Buddhist wisdom, mindfulness, and meditation. Read it. Sit with it. Return tomorrow. The Dhammapada is one of the best-known texts in the Pali Canon: 423 short verses on heedfulness, craving, anger, joy, clarity, and freedom. Sutta 423 helps you move through it slowly—one day at a time. THE PRACTICE One Dhammapada verse appears each morning. Read it. Let it settle. Carry it into the day. In 423 days, you’ll have walked through the entire Dhammapada—not just read it, but lived with it. This is a simple daily Dhamma practice for anyone drawn to Buddhist teachings, meditation, mindfulness, or the Buddha’s words. THE ECHO After a week, verses begin to return. What you read on Day 1 echoes back on Day 8, then Day 15, then further out. Repetition deepens understanding. The teaching…
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 5 screenshots above are Sutta 423: Dhammapada's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Sutta 423: Dhammapada runs a light set with one background colour (#F4ECE4) 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, #64442C, 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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