Metro
メトロ / 2010–2015 / Style / Microsoft UI
Windows Phone's flat language that made type the hero over icons: big typography, flat-color live tiles and compositions running off-screen — transit-sign clarity brought to UI, opening the flat era before iOS 7.
Type as the hero / Flat-color tiles / Compositions running off-screen / Chrome eliminated
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- from Zune HD to Windows Phone 7 / the transit-signage influence behind the name / the inheritance into Fluent