# Metal (Java Look and Feel) × Material Design — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=java-metal+material-design
# Metal (Java Look and Feel) carries the structure. Material Design 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 Metal (Java Look and Feel) (Style, 1998–) and its accent from Material Design (Style, 2014–). Structural cues: Internal window title bars laid as a deep blue violet band over a pale blue violet field; A fine texture of dots and diagonal ticks stamped into title bars and dividers; Rectangular buttons with no corner radius, ringed by a one pixel deep blue violet line; The host system draws the outer window frame while everything inside it follows a different visual language. Accent cues, used sparingly: Hierarchy and shadow expressed by elevation; Surfaces overlapping like sheets of paper; Motion that shows cause and effect; A standardized unit of spacing. Composition: Fix four bands inside the window: menu, tool strip, work area, status strip. Leave the host window frame alone and paint only what is inside it.. Type and lettering: Run a single sans throughout and separate levels with weight and color only. Keep to two type sizes and leave headings undecorated.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Give surfaces elevation and show front and back by the density of the shadow.. Mood: Technology, Trust, Play. Color: build on #CCCCFF, #9999CC, #666699 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. 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
# - Metal (Java Look and Feel): Since Java SE 5 the default theme has been Ocean, which drains most of the blue violet away, so building on the assumption that Metal means blue violet will not match what actually runs.
# - Material Design: Do not add shadow as decoration. The moment the elevation rules break, the hierarchy is telling a lie.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/java-metal/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/material-design/design.md