# elementary OS (elementary OS) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.567 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/elementary-os
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of elementary OS, a style from Platform Screen Languages, 2011–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: small single-purpose Linux desktop applications, or desktop interfaces whose result must be clear without technical language. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- A few primary actions in the top toolbar
- Short copy built from concrete verbs
- Multicolor app icons with distinctive silhouettes and a dark one-pixel outline
- White work surfaces, pale chrome and blue suggested actions

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: Give one window one subject, primary actions at the top, content in the center and secondary detail on demand
- Type and lettering: Use brief everyday language and explicit verbs; never label an action merely OK
- Material and surface: Build from white and pale gray, fine shadows and blue suggested actions; give icons unique silhouettes and a dark one-pixel edge
- Colour: #FAFAFA carries the ground, #3689E6 is the colour the style is remembered by, #333333 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: intimacy, calm, technique

## What goes wrong

macOS-like wallpaper and rounded icons miss the point. The concise writing and one-window-one-purpose model must travel with the look.

## 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/elementary-os/design.md