Enhancing the color saturation of structurally colored materials to levels comparable with pigment or dye-based systems remains a critical challenge in the field of photonic materials. While periodic photonic structures yield highly saturated and bright colors due to coherent Bragg scattering, disordered systems such as photonic glasses often exhibit diminished chromatic saturation and limited coverage within the chromaticity. This thesis investigates the generation of structural color in disordered media through a materials-driven approach. Specifically, it explores the fabrication of inverse silica disordered architectures via microgel colloidal templating to form dry silica foam-like photonic structures. A method is developed to produce these materials in a continuous powder form and in discrete spherical foam morphologies. These are subsequently characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and optical microscopy to assess their structural and optical properties. For producing saturated colors, we investigate the role of refractive index contrast in modulating light-matter interactions within disordered photonic systems. High refractive index contrast induces strong scattering and high reflectance, but low refractive index contrast enables deeper light penetration, reduces multiple scattering events, and facilitates constructive interference from short-range order. We present several strategies to decrease the index contrast in photonic glasses and analyze the color saturation by reflection measurements.