# Acme × Terminal UI — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=acme-interface+terminal-ui
# Acme carries the structure and Terminal UI appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Acme (style, 1994–) and their accent from Terminal UI (style, 1970s–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Acme exists for: when a working screen should stop gaining widgets and let every place you can type hold a command, or when a development environment is meant to be extended by users typing commands into the tag themselves. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Acme

- Windows are stacked in columns, and each window is just a one line tag above a body
- The scroll bar sits at the left edge of the body, and nothing sits at the right
- Sweeping a string with the middle button underlines it only while the button is held
- The body is pale yellow and the tag pale blue, and there is not one button or icon to click

Composition: Split the screen into columns and stack windows inside them. Each window is a one line tag above a body. Take no margin, and separate neighbours with a single thin rule. Type and lettering: One typeface, one size. No bold and no coloured text; state is shown by an underline and by inverted selection only.

## Accent comes from Terminal UI, used sparingly

- Single phosphor color on black
- The monospace grid
- A blinking cursor
- Scanlines and glow

Let one material quality come from it: One phosphor hue on black with scanlines and bloom added sparingly.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #FFFFEA, carry the structure in #EAFFFF and #AA0000, and let a single accent come from #00a800. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: technique, calm, rebellion.

## What goes wrong

- Acme: Copy the look and turn the tag into a fixed menu, and you lose the actual mechanism, which is that any string at all can be a command.
- Terminal UI: Heavy scanlines and flicker cost legibility and the atmosphere ends up beating the speed that made the tool worth using.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/acme-interface/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/terminal-ui/design.md