PatternFly

PatternFly / 2012– / Style / Platform Screen Languages

Red Hat's open-source screen language for enterprise products keeps complex infrastructure manageable through dense navigation, data views and tightly controlled status color.

PatternFly — PatternFly — official desktop data-list demo snapshot — Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc. / MIT
PatternFly — official desktop data-list demo snapshot — Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc. / MIT · MIT
PatternFly — AI-generated interpretation 1
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PatternFly — AI-generated interpretation 2
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At a glance

Visual cues

  • Dark masthead and left navigation
  • Dense tables and forms on white or pale-gray work surfaces
  • Blue for primary action and red, orange or green for status
  • List, detail and action shown in coordinated panes

Best used for

  • Administration products for cloud, containers and networks
  • Giving a suite of enterprise products one density, navigation and status language

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Dictionary entry

Type
Keep headings, body and table labels to a small hierarchy; distinguish values and code with monospace.
Composition
Separate dark shell, left navigation, work surface and an on-demand detail pane.
Material
Use white and pale gray broadly, blue for action and saturated color only for alerts and status.
Caution
Packing cards and tables together is not enough. Make current location and the priority of abnormal states obvious first.
Further study
PatternFly design foundations / Enterprise navigation and data views / Red Hat product applications

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