Sailfish Silica
Sailfish Silica / 2013– / Style / Platform Screen Languages
Sailfish OS's QML language centers the mobile experience on edge gestures and Ambience: wallpaper color runs through translucent type and highlights, while the screen edge itself becomes back, close and switch.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Text and focus tinted from the wallpaper
- Translucent controls floating over dark imagery
- Layers peeled by swipes from screen edges
- Pulley Menu revealed by pulling, with generous spacing
Best used for
- Mobile applications that concentrate one-handed navigation in edge gestures
- Coloring system UI and wallpaper into one personal ambience
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Use light, large sans text and write only current state and next action.
- Composition
- Place content on one vertical plane and assign back, close and menu to edge and pull gestures.
- Material
- Start from a dark wallpaper, use one extracted highlight color and vary white transparency for primary and secondary text.
- Caution
- Dark wallpaper and thin type alone are not Silica. Edge gestures, Pulley Menu and Ambience color must form one operation model.
- Further study
- Sailfish Silica QML / Ambience colors / Edge gestures and pulley menus
Related entries
- Holo (ホロ)Shared effects: Futurity / Calm.Compare Sailfish Silica and Holo
- One UI (ワンUI)Same Platform Screen Languages lineage.Compare Sailfish Silica and One UI
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