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 Luna: A horizontal bar along the bottom, one primary control at its left
- Type
- Set in Luna's manner (Bold sans in white, contrasted hard against the blue ground), and let Motif's lettering (A small sans at one fixed size, labels held to a single line, no letterspacing and no ornament inside the text) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Luna's material (Saturated blue and green, frames swelled by rounding and gradient); bring in exactly one thing from Motif (Pick one face color, derive a light edge and a dark edge from it, and paint them on opposite sides; swap the two while pressed, and never round a corner).
- Colour
- Build on #ece9d8, #3a6ea5, #000080 and admit one accent from #D3D3D3, #B4B4B4, #5F9EA0.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Luna Copying only the palette while dropping the rounding and swell leaves the colors floating, and none of the optimism arrives.
- Motif Replacing the two hard edge colors with a soft drop shadow kills the flip that signals a press, leaving decoration that merely looks raised.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Luna (style, 2001–2006) and their accent from Motif (style, 1989–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Luna exists for: using early 2000s PC culture as a device for nostalgia, or assembling a bright, friendly home facing screen through saturation. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Luna - The blue taskbar - The green Start button - Rounded frames - Meadow-and-sky optimism Composition: A horizontal bar along the bottom, one primary control at its left. Type and lettering: Bold sans in white, contrasted hard against the blue ground. ## Accent comes from Motif, used sparingly - A gray face lit along its top and left edges and darkened along its bottom and right, so every part appears raised - While a control is held down the two edge colors swap and the part sinks - A thin rectangular ring is drawn around whichever control currently takes keyboard input - Scroll bars are square cornered rectangles with a triangular arrow button at each end Let one material quality come from it: Pick one face color, derive a light edge and a dark edge from it, and paint them on opposite sides; swap the two while pressed, and never round a corner. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #ece9d8, carry the structure in #3a6ea5 and #000080, and let a single accent come from #B4B4B4. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: intimacy, play, trust, technique. ## What goes wrong - Luna: Copying only the palette while dropping the rounding and swell leaves the colors floating, and none of the optimism arrives. - Motif: Replacing the two hard edge colors with a soft drop shadow kills the flip that signals a press, leaving decoration that merely looks raised. ## 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
- Luna 2001–2006 / Style / Microsoft UI
Windows XP's look: blue taskbar, green Start button, rounded windows and a meadow wallpaper repainting the gray office machine as household optimism.
- Motif 1989– / Style / Platform Screen Languages
Motif is the interface language of UNIX workstations, maintained by The Open Group, standardized as IEEE 1295 and shipped on more than two hundred platforms. Its own data sheet calls the look a distinctive 3D beveled appearance, meaning every part sits on a gray face edged with one light line and one dark line.
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