# Acme (アクメ・インターフェース) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.535 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/acme-interface
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Acme, a style from Platform Screen Languages, 1994–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: when a working screen should stop gaining widgets and let every place you can type hold a command, or when a development environment is meant to be extended by users typing commands into the tag themselves. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Windows are stacked in columns, and each window is just a one line tag above a body
- The scroll bar sits at the left edge of the body, and nothing sits at the right
- Sweeping a string with the middle button underlines it only while the button is held
- The body is pale yellow and the tag pale blue, and there is not one button or icon to click

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Split the screen into columns and stack windows inside them. Each window is a one line tag above a body. Take no margin, and separate neighbours with a single thin rule
- Type and lettering: One typeface, one size. No bold and no coloured text; state is shown by an underline and by inverted selection only
- Material and surface: Two ground colours only: pale yellow for the body, pale blue for the tag, black for the text. Underline execution in dark red and reference in dark green, and fill the centre of the small square at the left of the tag when the file has been modified
- Colour: #FFFFEA carries the ground, #EAFFFF is the colour the style is remembered by, #AA0000 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: technique, calm, rebellion

## What goes wrong

Copy the look and turn the tag into a fixed menu, and you lose the actual mechanism, which is that any string at all can be a command.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers 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 language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/acme-interface/design.md