Have an app or icon to design?
Have you ever wondered what the most popular colors are in each category of the iOS store? We did. So we crawled the iOS app store and grabbed the top 5 app icons in each category and ran a histogram analysis on each one to find which colors were used most often. What we found was very interesting.
Before you design you next app icon, take a look at the color palettes below.
Great idea. Pass this along to your dev friends. [Via Joost van der Ree]
I am very dubious of that as design advice.
Make a good icon that expresses the product and looks nice.
Don’t pick “colors that are hot right now”; that’s the design equivalent of “drop shadows and reflections are in!”. It’s anti-design.
(e.g. in Books – iBooks and Kindle are not popular because of their icons.
Apple and Kindle could have used any design for those short of a literal turd, and they’d still be top-5 popular.
So the colors used are not Special Popularity Colors.)