No. 064, in twelve platesAn Orange World

An Orange World is drawn with a thin, even black line and filled with almost nothing: a few white shirts, a stripe of trouser, the odd pale paving slab, and otherwise the same saturated orange from edge to edge. The figures are elongated and slightly deadpan, with tiny heads and long legs, in the tradition of the New Yorker spot drawing. There is no sky and usually no ground beyond a single ink line, so every scene floats in colour and the twelve plates hang together like pages from one picture book.

The stories are small and gently absurd. In Long Leash a tall woman gazes upward while her lead stretches all the way across to a man reading on a bench, and the spotted dog it should belong to wanders off on the left. Two Balloons has a man in a white coat reaching for one balloon while a hand from beyond the frame offers him a second. Peekaboo Door is just a smiling face in glasses leaning out from behind a door edge, beside a doorbell. Elsewhere someone tugs a street tree through a white doorway, a commuter queue shuffles past a parked scooter, and a boy with a balloon stares at a single sneaker in a glass case.

The drawings live in the lower half of the frame, with the balloons rising into the middle, so the upper third is usually open orange for the clock and Lock Screen widgets. Black time reads best on it. On the Home Screen the colour is loud enough that white-tinted icons or dark mode help, and the little figures peek out from between your apps rather than hiding under them.

For anyone who wants a bright phone with a sense of humour, and for collectors of single-colour illustration. Balloon and Long Coat, The Big Balloon and Doorway Selfie can be downloaded free in full resolution; the remaining nine are premium plates in the pxCream app.