# Amiga Workbench × Pixel Art — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=amiga-workbench+pixel-art
# Amiga Workbench carries the structure. Pixel Art appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Amiga Workbench (Style, 1985–1996) and its accent from Pixel Art (Technique, 1970s–). Structural cues: A screen that uses four colors and no more, which are blue, white, orange and black; A blocky bitmap face packed into a coarse 640 by 200 grid; A full width title bar running across the top of the screen, with depth gadgets at its right end; Live controls raised by a light line at the top left and a dark line at the bottom right, inverting to a sunken state when pressed. Accent cues, used sparingly: Visible pixels; Limited palettes; Tiles; Sprites. Composition: One full width title bar runs across the top of the screen and windows fill the space below. Windows may overlap freely, but screens never do, since they slide vertically as whole layers.. Type and lettering: Set a monospaced bitmap face at its native size with no scaling and no smoothing. Fix the cap height around eight pixels and keep the leading tight.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Limited palette, dark outlines, neighboring hues to soften the steps. Mood: Play, Technology, Nostalgia. Color: build on #0055AA, #FF8800, #FFFFFF with a single accent drawn from #26243f, #ef6a55, #f3d36b. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Amiga Workbench: Adding colors past the four breaks the very mechanism that carried press and disabled states, because those were read as contrast in brightness, and the controls become indistinguishable on a monochrome or grayscale display.
# - Pixel Art: Downscaling a photograph skips the decision behind every single pixel, and the contours turn muddy the moment the image is enlarged.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/amiga-workbench/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/pixel-art/design.md