# Carbon Design System × GitLab Pajamas — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=carbon-design-system+gitlab-pajamas
# Carbon Design System carries the structure and GitLab Pajamas 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 Carbon Design System (style, 2015–) and their accent from GitLab Pajamas (style, 2018–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Carbon Design System exists for: enterprise software with many states and permissions, or keeping analytics, operations and forms coherent across products. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Carbon Design System

- IBM Plex and strong type hierarchy
- White or deep-gray work surfaces
- Dense tables, filters and side navigation
- Blue reserved for action and focus

Composition: Anchor dense modules to a 2x grid and keep navigation, work and detail zones distinct. Type and lettering: Use IBM Plex with compact labels and a clearly stepped hierarchy.

## Accent comes from GitLab Pajamas, used sparingly

- GitLab Sans paired with GitLab Mono for code
- Layered structure built from left navigation and application chrome
- Dense issue, merge-request and pipeline lists
- White or charcoal surfaces with purple as brand focus

Let one material quality come from it: Model depth with neutrals, reserve purple for brand affinity, and assign blue, red and green to stable action and status meanings.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #F4F4F4, carry the structure in #0F62FE and #161616, and let a single accent come from #7B58CF. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: technique, trust, calm.

## Where they fight

- Carbon Design System and GitLab Pajamas both belong to Platform Screen Languages, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

## What goes wrong

- Carbon Design System: Plex and blue do not make a product Carbon. Density, states and grid behavior must follow the same system.
- GitLab Pajamas: Orange and the tanuki do not make a screen Pajamas. Preserve hierarchy when code, status and discussion share the same view.

## 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/carbon-design-system/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/gitlab-pajamas/design.md