# Ribbon (リボン) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.537 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/ribbon-ui
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Ribbon, a layout from Microsoft UI, 2007–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: consolidating menus and toolbars into a single surface for a business application with dozens of commands, or designing a surface where users pick by seeing the result first, through galleries and live preview. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- A tabbed band sits permanently at the top of the window, fixed at 48 pixels high
- The band is cut into labelled groups, with each group name running along its lower edge
- Command icons come in two sizes, 32 by 32 and 16 by 16, and the frequent ones take the large size and lead the group
- Coloured contextual tabs appear when an object type is selected, and their tab set labels end in Tools

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: Fix the band to the top and keep core tabs to seven or fewer. Make the first tab Home and gather the frequent commands there, then cut the band into labelled groups
- Type and lettering: Label every command. Icons stand alone only where the commands are ones everybody already knows
- Material and surface: Draw each icon at both 32 by 32 and 16 by 16, giving the large size to the frequent commands. Size in ribbon gallery thumbnails to fit inside the 48 pixel band
- Colour: #F5F4F2 carries the ground, #D6E4F5 is the colour the style is remembered by, #2E5C99 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: trust, technique

## What goes wrong

Merely refactoring existing menus and toolbars into the band costs the extra space without gaining the results oriented commands that justify it.

## 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/ribbon-ui/design.md