Microsoft UI

Microsoft UI

Dictionary entry

  1. Fluent 2 2022– / Style

    Tokenizes color, type, spacing, radius and depth, deploying Solid, Acrylic, Mica and Smoke materials by role across Microsoft products.

  2. Luna 2001–2006 / Style

    Windows XP's look: blue taskbar, green Start button, rounded windows and a meadow wallpaper repainting the gray office machine as household optimism.

  3. Aero 2006–2012 / Style

    The translucent glass UI of Vista and 7: frosted window frames, live thumbnails and GPU-composited depth making 'through glass' the OS's standard vocabulary.

  4. Metro 2010–2015 / Style

    Windows Phone's flat language that made type the hero over icons: big typography, flat-color live tiles and compositions running off-screen — transit-sign clarity brought to UI, opening the flat era before iOS 7.

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