Luna
ルナ / 2001–2006 / Style / Microsoft UI
Windows XP's look: blue taskbar, green Start button, rounded windows and a meadow wallpaper repainting the gray office machine as household optimism.
At a glance
Visual cues
- The blue taskbar
- The green Start button
- Rounded frames
- Meadow-and-sky optimism
Best used for
- Using early 2000s PC culture as a device for nostalgia
- Assembling a bright, friendly home facing screen through saturation
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Bold sans in white, contrasted hard against the blue ground
- Composition
- A horizontal bar along the bottom, one primary control at its left
- Material
- Saturated blue and green, frames swelled by rounding and gradient
- Caution
- Copying only the palette while dropping the rounding and swell leaves the colors floating, and none of the optimism arrives.
- Further study
- Windows XP, 2001 / the Bliss wallpaper / the Olive and Silver themes
Related entries
- Aqua (アクア)Shared effects: Play / Intimacy.Compare Luna and Aqua
- Aero (エアロ)Same Microsoft UI lineage.Compare Luna and Aero
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