Colors of the iOS7 App Store

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Post by dewey » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 3:26 PM UTC

Colors of the iOS7 App Store
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Re: Colors of the iOS7 App Store

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Post by chrisBob » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 3:52 PM UTC

Should this impact my icon design, or is it just a representation of the most popular apps. Is there a good way to separate the two?

Re: Colors of the iOS7 App Store

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Post by RBerenguel » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 3:52 PM UTC

I would have bet in a mild tone of blue (similar to the same App Store icon) would be one of the most common. Somehow, every time I swipe in multitasking most icons strike to me as blue-ish (Skype, Dropbox, App Store, Mail, Safari, Alien Blue, Tweetglass, Kindle, Textastic...) Probably just a too small sample, but a very interesting data check.

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Post by msacca » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:14 PM UTC

chrisBob wrote: post #2

Should this impact my icon design, or is it just a representation of the most popular apps. Is there a good way to separate the two?

Personally, I saw it as an interesting study in what palettes people are choosing to represent the purpose of their applications. I wouldn't change your palette based on this, in fact, differentiation could help you to stand out.

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Post by jgh » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:25 PM UTC

I wonder why Akinator and Pocket God are in Entertainment and not Games...

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Post by k-mcgrady » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:25 PM UTC

chrisBob wrote: post #2

Should this impact my icon design, or is it just a representation of the most popular apps. Is there a good way to separate the two?

When looking at social blue is overwhelming. I would go with something other than blue as it would obviously stand out in the listings.

Re: Colors of the iOS7 App Store

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Post by goldvine » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

Thanks for putting this together! It's very interesting to see the differences across various app categories.

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Post by xenophanes » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

isn't top 5 per category way too little? if you wanna know what colors are popular in a category, shouldn't you look at like a couple hundred icons?

Re: Colors of the iOS7 App Store

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Post by GuiA » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:52 PM UTC

This is super neat, but the top 5 icons is a very small sample to draw any conclusions from.

If you wrote a script to fetch the icons and do the subsequent analysis, it should be trivial to modify it to fetch a few hundred icons in each category instead, which should yield more accurate results. You may find out, for example, that a few colors are just as equally represented and that there is no real "dominant" color for a category.

But if you fetched the icons by hand, this would be problematic...

Re: Colors of the iOS7 App Store

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Post by joelle » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 5:23 PM UTC

This is really interesting to see - nice work!