# OS/2 Workplace Shell (OS/2 Workplace Shell) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.600 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/os-2-workplace-shell
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of OS/2 Workplace Shell, a style from Platform Screen Languages, 1992–2001.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: handling files, devices and settings as one environment of related objects rather than separate applications, or reconstructing a 1990s work desktop from its object model instead of window decoration. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Pale gray surfaces with double light and dark dimensional edges
- Low-color object icons drawn from an oblique view
- Notebook settings with stacked edge tabs
- Direct dragging among folders, shredder and drives

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: Use the desktop as a base, overlap folder windows, and gather settings into a multi-tab Notebook
- Type and lettering: Use a small system sans and keep object names to one line directly below their icons
- Material and surface: Layer light upper-left and dark lower-right edges on middle gray, giving icons limited color and small shadows
- Colour: #C9C7BD carries the ground, #557A9E is the colour the style is remembered by, #202226 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: technique, trust, nostalgia

## What goes wrong

Old icons and 3D buttons are not enough. Every part must behave as a directly operable, related object.

## 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/os-2-workplace-shell/design.md