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 Liquid Glass: Hold controls to the edges and make inner and outer radii concentric
- Type
- Set in Liquid Glass's manner (Keep text off the material itself and set minimum sizes from measured contrast), and let visionOS Spatial Design's lettering (Use SF Pro, choosing the heavier body and title steps this platform provides. Default to white text and keep the glyphs themselves flat. Labels tied to a point in space should always turn to face the viewer) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Liquid Glass's material (Use one refracting layer only, letting it pick up the color beneath); bring in exactly one thing from visionOS Spatial Design (Keep the glass background. Build depth from shadow, specular reflection and colour temperature, never from raised text. Keep any 3D inside a window shallow and move deeper objects into a volume).
- Colour
- Build on #eaf3f5, #87acbd, #233746 and admit one accent from #FFFFFF, #C9CED6, #101014.
Where they fight
- Liquid Glass and visionOS Spatial Design both belong to Apple UI, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Liquid Glass Keep it to the control layer rather than decorating content with translucent cards. Each added layer lets more background through until text fails, so check legibility on devices and honor Reduce Transparency.
- visionOS Spatial Design Replacing the glass with an opaque fill breaks the visual relationship between elements, hurts legibility, and makes the window feel heavy because it hides the room behind it.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Liquid Glass (style, 2025–) and their accent from visionOS Spatial Design (style, 2023–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Liquid Glass exists for: apps that show content full bleed while floating only the controls above it, or screens where light, dark and wallpaper change but control positions must hold. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Liquid Glass - Dynamic refraction - Concentric corner radii - Floating control layers - Reflected background color Composition: Hold controls to the edges and make inner and outer radii concentric. Type and lettering: Keep text off the material itself and set minimum sizes from measured contrast. ## Accent comes from visionOS Spatial Design, used sparingly - An upright plane with a glass background that cannot be swapped out, carrying specular reflections and shadows - A default window of 1280x720 pt, opening about two metres away with an apparent width near three metres - A hover effect that lights only the element being looked at, with one rounded target region per control - Volumes have no visible frame, and their close button and window bar rotate to face whoever walks around them Let one material quality come from it: Keep the glass background. Build depth from shadow, specular reflection and colour temperature, never from raised text. Keep any 3D inside a window shallow and move deeper objects into a volume. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #eaf3f5, carry the structure in #87acbd and #233746, and let a single accent come from #C9CED6. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: futurity, technique, luxury, calm. ## Where they fight - Liquid Glass and visionOS Spatial Design both belong to Apple UI, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable. ## What goes wrong - Liquid Glass: Keep it to the control layer rather than decorating content with translucent cards. Each added layer lets more background through until text fails, so check legibility on devices and honor Reduce Transparency. - visionOS Spatial Design: Replacing the glass with an opaque fill breaks the visual relationship between elements, hurts legibility, and makes the window feel heavy because it hides the room behind it. ## 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
- Liquid Glass 2025– / Style / Apple UI
Unifies the floating control and navigation layer as a fluid glass material that refracts and adapts to the content beneath.
- visionOS Spatial Design 2023– / Style / Apple UI
The screen language Apple set out for Vision Pro in its Human Interface Guidelines. A window is an upright plane whose background is a material Apple calls glass, so the room shows through it while specular reflections and shadows report where the plane sits and how big it is. visionOS defines a point as an angle rather than a count of pixels, which keeps a window's apparent size constant as it moves away.
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