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 Bento Grid: Tile large and small cards on four to six columns
- Type
- Set in Bento Grid's manner (A plain sans; oversize the numbers and short headings), and let One UI's lettering (Let the title fill the height of the upper area and open a wide gap between it and body text. The collapsed title may be a shorter, different string from the expanded one) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Bento Grid's material (Vary each card's role; keep decoration inside the cards); bring in exactly one thing from One UI (Round corners generously, roughly 12dp to 26dp. Choose one of two grounds, #fafafa or #000000, restrict the accent to a single blue, and bring no other hue onto the screen).
- Colour
- Build on #e8e7e1, #8dd5ba, #20211e and admit one accent from #0381FE, #FAFAFA, #000000.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Bento Grid Not every card equal. Vary area and density by importance.
- One UI Putting a pressable control into the viewing area destroys the reason for splitting the screen at all, and what is left is just a layout with a lot of empty space at the top.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Bento Grid (layout, 2020s) and their accent from One UI (style, 2018–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Bento Grid exists for: presenting many features as one story, or staying friendly while keeping density. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Bento Grid - Cards large and small - Aligned gutters - One-screen summary - Modules Composition: Tile large and small cards on four to six columns. Type and lettering: A plain sans; oversize the numbers and short headings. ## Accent comes from One UI, used sparingly - The upper part of the screen holds nothing but a title and open space, with no touchable control in it - Text and images are collected into card shaped containers with strongly rounded corners - The title bar has only two states, expanded and collapsed, and never rests anywhere in between - In the dark theme the ground goes to true black and only the blue accent sits on top of it Let one material quality come from it: Round corners generously, roughly 12dp to 26dp. Choose one of two grounds, #fafafa or #000000, restrict the accent to a single blue, and bring no other hue onto the screen. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #e8e7e1, carry the structure in #8dd5ba and #20211e, and let a single accent come from #0381FE. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: trust, intimacy, technique, calm. ## What goes wrong - Bento Grid: Not every card equal. Vary area and density by importance. - One UI: Putting a pressable control into the viewing area destroys the reason for splitting the screen at all, and what is left is just a layout with a lot of empty space at the top. ## 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
- Bento Grid 2020s / Layout / Information Design
Divides different kinds of information into independent boxes, giving the whole picture at a glance.
- One UI 2018– / Style / Platform Screen Languages
Samsung's design language for Galaxy devices. It cuts the screen at the height a thumb reaches most easily and calls the part above that the viewing area and the part below the interaction area, so titles sit high while buttons, tabs and dialogs are gathered low. Content is collected into containers with heavily rounded corners, the ground is either white or true black, and a single blue carries every accent.
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