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sam henri gold

I've been designing with Material You for the past few months and something I noticed when switching back to iOS is how your accent color is relatively limited in scope: labels, background/foreground fills are always tinted blue.

“Color grading” your app should be easier. If your app is green, why should the background be off-blue? Why are labels pure black when they can be infused with a bit of color?

Additional reading:
[1] threadreaderapp.com/thread/150
[2] ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip- by @ian

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sam henri gold

It's extremely subtle but it's a wonderful bit of polish.

Kevin Clark

@samhenrigold Reminds me a bit of the wallpaper tinting in macOS. Pretty cool!

Григорий Клюшников

Before flat design took over, apps went crazy with this stuff. Everything got customized to follow a common theme. It was extreme pain as a developer, sure, but the result looked nice.

sam henri gold

@grishka I've got a huge 20GB archive of app screenshots from the early days, I've been meaning to put some online archive together for a while...

Григорий Клюшников

sam henri gold, omg please do! Make a Mastodon bot that posts them regularly maybe.

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