# GNOME Clearlooks (GNOME Clearlooks) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.582 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/gnome-clearlooks
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of GNOME Clearlooks, a style from Platform Screen Languages, 2005–2011.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: aligning document, file and settings applications into one calm GTK environment, or recreating a 2000s Linux desktop without loud brand color. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Pale-gray surfaces with blue selection bars
- A quiet highlight only along button tops
- Tabs and fields with restrained rounding
- Small GNOME icons and a concise two-level hierarchy

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: Stack menu, toolbar, work area and status bar shallowly, without ornamental regions
- Type and lettering: Use a small system sans and create hierarchy through label weight rather than added decoration
- Material and surface: Use one blue selection color over pale gray, a slight top highlight and one fine dark outer edge
- Colour: #F2F1EF carries the ground, #729FCF is the colour the style is remembered by, #2E3436 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, trust, calm

## What goes wrong

Old GTK widgets alone are not Clearlooks. State and hierarchy must be unified as a simple, friendly default surface.

## 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/gnome-clearlooks/design.md