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Color on Small Screens: What Changes When Your Canvas Is a Phone

Mobile UI color design is not simply desktop design scaled down. Small canvas size, high pixel density, variable ambient light conditions, and the dominance of OLED panels fundamentally change which color decisions matter. This issue covers the mobile-specific constraints that most desktop-trained designers encounter when they first work at phone scale — and how to adapt a desktop palette for mobile without rebuilding it from scratch.