Recently, foreign netizen Stuart Hall published an article on the blog platform Medium about "Apple App Icon Colors".

Recently, foreign netizen Stuart Hall published an article on the blog platform Medium about "Apple App Icon Colors". Stuart Hall was very curious about the colors of the app icons on the App Store rankings, so he used the Ruby program Miro to extract the colors of the most popular app icons and displayed the distribution of the app icons in the color palette, summarizing the most commonly used colors of the top 200 app and game icons on the App Store rankings.

For example, he drew the main colors of the Google Maps icon as follows:

The icon size represents the proportion of the color

Then he added the icons of the top 200 on the list one by one, and the result is as shown below:

Color distribution of the top 200 iPhone free apps

It can be found that the colors of most free iPhone app icons are mainly blue and red, followed by green, and pink and purple are extremely rare. Only the self-destructing messaging app Snapchat uses a very conspicuous yellow.

Color distribution of the top 200 free iPad app icons

Although the color distribution of iPad free app icons is similar to that of iPhone apps, with blue, red and green as the main colors, most iPad app icons are smaller and more dispersed than iPhone apps, which means that most iPad apps use a wider variety of colors rather than a single color.

Color distribution of the top 200 iOS game icons

The colors of iOS game icons also show a complex color composition similar to that of iPad applications, and most application colors are still mainly red and blue, while green is relatively rare in ordinary applications.

So if you are an iOS game or app developer, the colors of the app icons on these rankings may be used as a reference. Choosing red or blue may be safer, and if you want to pursue novelty, you can use green or even other colors such as pink and purple.