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 Holo: A full width action bar is fixed at the top and a single column list fills the space under it. Sections are separated by hairlines rather than white space, and a strip is reserved at the bottom for the navigation keys
- Type
- Set in Holo's manner (One geometric leaning sans across the whole interface, in two weights only. Tabs and section headers go uppercase with the tracking opened slightly), and let Sailfish Silica's lettering (Use light, large sans text and write only current state and next action) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Holo's material (Ground is black or a pale #F3F3F3, text is white or dark gray, and rules are one pixel of white at reduced opacity. Restrict the accent to #33B5E5 alone and let it glow only on press, selection and progress); bring in exactly one thing from Sailfish Silica (Start from a dark wallpaper, use one extracted highlight color and vary white transparency for primary and secondary text).
- Colour
- Build on #000000, #33B5E5, #F3F3F3 and admit one accent from #152A33, #47D7C8, #F7F9FA.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Holo Redrawing the widgets so they no longer inherit from the theme throws away the one thing this style buys you, which is looking identical across devices, and leaves your app the odd one out on a skinned phone.
- Sailfish Silica Dark wallpaper and thin type alone are not Silica. Edge gestures, Pulley Menu and Ambience color must form one operation model.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Holo (style, 2011–2014) and their accent from Sailfish Silica (style, 2013–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Holo exists for: recreating an Android app screen from roughly 2011 to 2013 with the period's actual widgets and theme names, or building hierarchy in a dark admin screen from hairlines and one accent color, without adding panels or shadows. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Holo - White text on black, with sections divided by one pixel hairlines instead of filled panels - A single cyan blue at #33B5E5 lighting only selection, the underline of a text field, and progress - A full width action bar pinned to the top, and a strip of Back, Home and Recents keys at the bottom - Tab labels and list section headers set in bold, all uppercase Composition: A full width action bar is fixed at the top and a single column list fills the space under it. Sections are separated by hairlines rather than white space, and a strip is reserved at the bottom for the navigation keys. Type and lettering: One geometric leaning sans across the whole interface, in two weights only. Tabs and section headers go uppercase with the tracking opened slightly. ## Accent comes from Sailfish Silica, used sparingly - Text and focus tinted from the wallpaper - Translucent controls floating over dark imagery - Layers peeled by swipes from screen edges - Pulley Menu revealed by pulling, with generous spacing Let one material quality come from it: Start from a dark wallpaper, use one extracted highlight color and vary white transparency for primary and secondary text. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #F3F3F3, carry the structure in #33B5E5 and #000000, and let a single accent come from #47D7C8. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: technique, futurity, calm, intimacy. ## What goes wrong - Holo: Redrawing the widgets so they no longer inherit from the theme throws away the one thing this style buys you, which is looking identical across devices, and leaves your app the odd one out on a skinned phone. - Sailfish Silica: Dark wallpaper and thin type alone are not Silica. Edge gestures, Pulley Menu and Ambience color must form one operation model. ## 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
- Holo 2011–2014 / Style / Google UI
Google's design language for Android, introduced with 3.0 and pushed so hard that carrying it unmodified became a compatibility requirement for every 4.0 device. It rules a black ground with hairlines and lets a single cyan blue carry selection, focus and progress. It arrived as a guarantee as much as a look, since an app that asked for the theme by name would be drawn the same way even on a phone wearing a manufacturer's skin.
- Sailfish Silica 2013– / Style / Platform Screen Languages
Sailfish OS's QML language centers the mobile experience on edge gestures and Ambience: wallpaper color runs through translucent type and highlights, while the screen edge itself becomes back, close and switch.
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