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.
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
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Administration products for cloud, containers and networks · Giving a suite of enterprise products one density, navigation and status language
- 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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