Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of VNL Weather's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#040404 bg
#272727
#7C0404 accent
#FFFFFF text
- #1A oa FARGO, ND Q = p Big Temperature Change Midweek
- #2A oa FARGO, ND Q = Grab 'n' Go Weather Powered by m= Tobolt Seed: Foggy start, sunny day!
- #3a+ FARGO, ND Q =
- #4A oman FARGO, ND Q = MONDAY
Captions read from the screenshots (OCR, may contain small errors): 4 headlines, 10.5 words on average (longest 19).
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About this app
Valley News Live , is proud to announce a full featured weather app for the iPhone and iPad platforms. Features • Access to station content specifically for our mobile users • 250 meter radar, the highest resolution available • Future radar to see where severe weather is headed • High resolution satellite cloud imagery • Current weather updated multiple times per hour • Daily and Hourly forecasts updated hourly from our computer models • Ability to add and save your favorite locations • A fully integrated GPS for current location awareness • Severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service • Opt-in push alerts to keep you safe in severe weather
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What you can learn from VNL Weather
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 14 screenshots above are VNL Weather's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: VNL Weather runs a dark set with one background colour (#040404) 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, #7C0404, 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.
Want to see how other Weather apps approach the same problem? Browse more Weather apps in the showcase.
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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.