# Material Design × Solarized — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=material-design+solarized
# Material Design carries the structure and Solarized 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 Material Design (style, 2014–) and their accent from Solarized (style, 2011–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Material Design exists for: distributing consistent behavior across several platforms, or communicating the depth of a hierarchy visually. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Material Design

- Hierarchy and shadow expressed by elevation
- Surfaces overlapping like sheets of paper
- Motion that shows cause and effect
- A standardized unit of spacing

Composition: Place elements on a grid of multiples of 8 and standardize the spacing. Type and lettering: Build the hierarchy from one type family and separate levels by weight and size.

## Accent comes from Solarized, used sparingly

- Backgrounds that are neither pure black nor pure white, one leaning teal and one leaning cream
- A small lightness gap between body text and ground, softer than black on white
- Eight accents at close to equal lightness, told apart by hue alone
- The same accent holding the same role after the background is flipped from dark to light

Let one material quality come from it: Hold to the eight monotones and eight accents, anchoring the ends at #002b36 and #fdf6e3 and taking body text from the middle greys.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #dfd5ec, carry the structure in #6a5996 and #020202, and let a single accent come from #268bd2. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: trust, technique, play, calm.

## What goes wrong

- Material Design: Do not add shadow as decoration. The moment the elevation rules break, the hierarchy is telling a lie.
- Solarized: Borrowing only the backgrounds and inventing your own accents breaks the matched CIELAB lightness, and the scheme loses the very mechanism that lets hue do the separating.

## 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/material-design/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/solarized/design.md