# Carbon Design System (Carbon Design System) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.554 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/carbon-design-system
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Carbon Design System, a style from Platform Screen Languages, 2015–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: enterprise software with many states and permissions, or keeping analytics, operations and forms coherent across products. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- IBM Plex and strong type hierarchy
- White or deep-gray work surfaces
- Dense tables, filters and side navigation
- Blue reserved for action and focus

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: Anchor dense modules to a 2x grid and keep navigation, work and detail zones distinct
- Type and lettering: Use IBM Plex with compact labels and a clearly stepped hierarchy
- Material and surface: Build with neutral layers, fine borders and blue only for interaction
- Colour: #F4F4F4 carries the ground, #0F62FE is the colour the style is remembered by, #161616 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, trust, calm

## What goes wrong

Plex and blue do not make a product Carbon. Density, states and grid behavior must follow the same system.

## 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/carbon-design-system/design.md