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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 4 of tone - photos, printed's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#1C1C1C bg
#3B3B3B
#CCAC7C accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
tone turns photos, drawings, and text into artwork with the character of stencil printing. Layer up to 8 images, finger drawings, and text objects in one composition. Use up to 5 physical ink plates across the artwork: share a plate to print objects in one color, or separate them for independent misregistration. Select an object on the preview and move, scale, or rotate it directly. Crop each image, adjust every corner radius independently, and set each margin with on-canvas handles. Drawing includes five brush sizes plus undo and redo. Text offers ten typefaces with controls for density, bleed, weight, spacing, and leading. Both pass through the same halftone and ink process as photos. Simple mode explores color, screen, and frame combinations with random buttons. Customize mode exposes the individual controls, while Advanced mode also lets you edit which plates each object uses. …
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What you can learn from tone - photos, printed
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 8 screenshots above are tone - photos, printed's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: tone - photos, printed runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #1C1C1C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #CCAC7C, 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.