Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Ant Design: Set table and form columns first; show relationships through alignment rather than extra space
- Type
- Set in Ant Design's manner (Keep body text compact and separate labels, values and help text through weight and color), and let Fluent 2's lettering (Define size and leading as tokens and never hardcode values in a screen) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Ant Design's material (Start with white, fine borders and a blue primary action; hold every state color to one meaning); bring in exactly one thing from Fluent 2 (Mica for the window ground, Acrylic only for surfaces that appear briefly).
- Colour
- Build on #FFFFFF, #1677FF, #1F1F1F and admit one accent from #f1f3f5, #6b8eaa, #242a31.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Ant Design A component catalog dropped onto a page can look orderly while leaving the actual workflow undesigned.
- Fluent 2 Match blur and shadow to surface role, window state and light, dark and high contrast. Adding one off colors and paddings per screen turns the unifying system into one more thing to maintain.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Ant Design (style, 2015–) and their accent from Fluent 2 (style, 2022–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Ant Design exists for: enterprise admin screens with many tables, forms, permissions and states, or standardizing component behavior and exceptions in international products. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Ant Design - Dense tables set in small type and fine rules - Blue primary actions with explicit semantic colors - Consistent forms, pagination, trees and tables - Readability achieved through alignment and repetition, not generous space Composition: Set table and form columns first; show relationships through alignment rather than extra space. Type and lettering: Keep body text compact and separate labels, values and help text through weight and color. ## Accent comes from Fluent 2, used sparingly - Mica and Acrylic - Neutral tonal hierarchy - Soft corner radii - Tokenized depth Let one material quality come from it: Mica for the window ground, Acrylic only for surfaces that appear briefly. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #FFFFFF, carry the structure in #1677FF and #1F1F1F, and let a single accent come from #6b8eaa. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: technique, trust, calm. ## What goes wrong - Ant Design: A component catalog dropped onto a page can look orderly while leaving the actual workflow undesigned. - Fluent 2: Match blur and shadow to surface role, window state and light, dark and high contrast. Adding one off colors and paddings per screen turns the unifying system into one more thing to maintain. ## 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.
Related entries
- Ant Design 2015– / Style / Platform Screen Languages
A design system that keeps enterprise web applications at low entropy through reusable components and page patterns. Its values — Natural, Certain, Meaningful and Growing — systematize tables, forms, hierarchy and state without reducing information density.
- Fluent 2 2022– / Style / Microsoft UI
Tokenizes color, type, spacing, radius and depth, deploying Solid, Acrylic, Mica and Smoke materials by role across Microsoft products.
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