# Terminal UI × Windows 95 Interface — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=terminal-ui+windows-95-interface
# Terminal UI carries the structure. Windows 95 Interface 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 Terminal UI (Style, 1970s–) and its accent from Windows 95 Interface (Style, 1995–2001). Structural cues: Single phosphor color on black; The monospace grid; A blinking cursor; Scanlines and glow. Accent cues, used sparingly: Gray panels framed by a doubled edge, one light line and one dark line, outside and inside; A bar pinned to the bottom of the screen with a single square button at its left end; A flat navy title bar with three small squares grouped at its right end; Small bitmap text with no antialiasing, one letter underlined to mark the keyboard shortcut. Composition: Everything on the column and row grid, blocks separated by blank lines. Type and lettering: One monospaced face where emphasis comes from weight and inversion alone. Let one material quality come from the second style: Carve everything from four values: the gray face, a white highlight, a mid gray shadow, a black outline. Build relief from an outer and an inner line, and swap light for dark on press.. Mood: Technology, Rebellion, Calm, Trust, Nostalgia. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #C0C0C0, #000080, #008080. 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
# - Terminal UI: Heavy scanlines and flicker cost legibility and the atmosphere ends up beating the speed that made the tool worth using.
# - Windows 95 Interface: Copy the gray and the doubled line but add rounded corners or soft shadows, and the direction of the carving stops reading, taking the hardness that defined the original with it.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/terminal-ui/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/windows-95-interface/design.md