# Motif × Terminal UI — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=motif+terminal-ui
# Motif carries the structure. Terminal UI 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 Motif (Style, 1989–) and its accent from Terminal UI (Style, 1970s–). Structural cues: A gray face lit along its top and left edges and darkened along its bottom and right, so every part appears raised; While a control is held down the two edge colors swap and the part sinks; A thin rectangular ring is drawn around whichever control currently takes keyboard input; Scroll bars are square cornered rectangles with a triangular arrow button at each end. Accent cues, used sparingly: Single phosphor color on black; The monospace grid; A blinking cursor; Scanlines and glow. Composition: Windows are cut into beveled rectangles and controls are packed a few pixels apart; there is almost no breathing room, the screen is filled with operable parts.. Type and lettering: A small sans at one fixed size, labels held to a single line, no letterspacing and no ornament inside the text.. Let one material quality come from the second style: One phosphor hue on black with scanlines and bloom added sparingly. Mood: Technology, Trust, Rebellion, Calm. Color: build on #D3D3D3, #B4B4B4, #5F9EA0 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
# - Motif: Replacing the two hard edge colors with a soft drop shadow kills the flip that signals a press, leaving decoration that merely looks raised.
# - Terminal UI: Heavy scanlines and flicker cost legibility and the atmosphere ends up beating the speed that made the tool worth using.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/motif/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/terminal-ui/design.md