# Luna (ルナ)

> Windows XP's look: blue taskbar, green Start button, rounded windows and a meadow wallpaper repainting the gray office machine as household optimism.

- IndexStyle No.440 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/luna
- Kind: Style · Family: Microsoft UI · Era: 2001–2006
- Mood: Intimacy, Play, Trust
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- The blue taskbar
- The green Start button
- Rounded frames
- Meadow-and-sky optimism

## Best used for

- Comparing primary sources and canonical works
- Extracting principles that transfer to other media

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process

## What to avoid

Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] The blue taskbar
- [ ] The green Start button
- [ ] Rounded frames
- [ ] Meadow-and-sky optimism
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Aqua (アクア)** — Mac OS X's lickable design language: gel-gloss buttons, pinstripes, deep shadows and the genie effect staging digital parts as touchable objects — defining 2000s UI at large. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/aqua
- **Aero (エアロ)** — The translucent glass UI of Vista and 7: frosted window frames, live thumbnails and GPU-composited depth making 'through glass' the OS's standard vocabulary. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/aero

## Further study

- Windows XP, 2001
- the Bliss wallpaper
- the Olive and Silver themes

## Reference works

- GUIdebook — Graphical User Interface gallery — https://guidebookgallery.org/

## AI interpretation

An AI-generated interpretation image exists for browsing convenience only — it is not a reference work: https://indexstyle.org/ai/luna.jpg

## Source of record

- GUIdebook — Graphical User Interface gallery — https://guidebookgallery.org/

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/luna
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/luna/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

Windows XPの視覚様式。青いタスクバー、緑のスタートボタン、丸みのあるウィンドウと草原の壁紙が、灰色の事務機だったPCを家庭の楽観へ塗り替えた。

特徴: 青のタスクバー／緑のスタートボタン／丸みのある枠／草原と青空の楽観
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。