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short notes on icon colors, genres, and ratings. all findings are from 15,864 real app icons.

a fact checked icon design system you can give to any llm

we turned 15,864 icons and standard color math into a reusable skill. read it, copy the prompt, and share the link with any llm.

blue and white make up half the app store. but our analysis of 15,864 icons shows purple, green and red icons earn the highest weighted ratings.

we compared 15,864 icons by saturation. vivid icons rate 4.28 on average, ahead of muted 4.26 and normal 4.25.

72 percent of app icons are bright. bright icons average 4.269 rating, ahead of medium 4.265 and dark 4.259. luminance matters.

shopping leads at 4.42, then finance 4.39 and travel 4.37. we rank 15 genres with at least 100 icons each.

business is 40 percent white and 25 percent blue. food and drink is 20 percent red. see the heatmap of 24 genres by 11 colors.

graphics and design tops saturation at 0.60, photo and video is lowest at 0.38. see the full ranking.