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 Material Design: Place elements on a grid of multiples of 8 and standardize the spacing.
- Type
- Set in Material Design's manner (Build the hierarchy from one type family and separate levels by weight and size.), and let U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)'s lettering (Public Sans throughout, body text at 16px or larger, lines held between 45 and 90 characters, line height at least 1.5 for long passages.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Material Design's material (Give surfaces elevation and show front and back by the density of the shadow.); bring in exactly one thing from U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) (Deep blue #005EA2 leads and red #D83933 follows, with grays taken only from the fixed run between #1B1B1B and #F0F0F0, never mixed in between.).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #005EA2, #D83933, #162E51.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Material Design Do not add shadow as decoration. The moment the elevation rules break, the hierarchy is telling a lie.
- U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) Add one in between value to fill a gap in the scale and the system is gone, because every page then starts inventing measurements of its own.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Material Design (Style, 2014–) and its accent from U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) (Style, 2015–). Structural cues: Hierarchy and shadow expressed by elevation; Surfaces overlapping like sheets of paper; Motion that shows cause and effect; A standardized unit of spacing. Accent cues, used sparingly: Body text runs large and lines wrap somewhere between 45 and 90 characters; The same two colors recur across agencies, a deep blue #005EA2 and an alert red #D83933; Spacing never lands on an arbitrary number, only on steps of a fixed scale; Public Sans carries everything from headings to body text, wide set and free of quirks. Composition: Place elements on a grid of multiples of 8 and standardize the spacing.. Type and lettering: Build the hierarchy from one type family and separate levels by weight and size.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Deep blue #005EA2 leads and red #D83933 follows, with grays taken only from the fixed run between #1B1B1B and #F0F0F0, never mixed in between.. Mood: Trust, Technology, Play. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #005EA2, #D83933, #162E51. 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
- Material Design 2014– / Style / Google UI
A design system that reduces the physical metaphor of paper and ink to rules of shadow and overlap. Elements are given elevation, shadow states the hierarchy, and motion carries physical cause and effect. It became the model for UI design being distributed as a system.
- U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) 2015– / Style / Design Systems
The design language of United States federal websites, published by the General Services Administration. Color, spacing, and type size are quantized into a limited set of discrete options instead of the open range CSS allows, and the system ships Public Sans, a neutral face drawn from Libre Franklin, so that every agency site speaks in the same voice.
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