Compose two styles

Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, 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 #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #D3D3D3, #B4B4B4, #5F9EA0.

Where they fight

These two are already listed as related, 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

An original image that takes its structure from Luna (Style, 2001–2006) and its accent from Motif (Style, 1989–). Structural cues: The blue taskbar; The green Start button; Rounded frames; Meadow-and-sky optimism. Accent cues, 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. 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. Let one material quality come from the second style: 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.. Mood: Intimacy, Play, Trust, Technology. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #D3D3D3, #B4B4B4, #5F9EA0. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition 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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