# Skeleton Screen (スケルトン・スクリーン) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.539 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/skeleton-screen
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Skeleton Screen, a technique from UI Expression, 2013–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: replacing the spinner on the first load of a list or timeline to raise perceived speed, or fixing a screen where elements jump as data lands, by committing position and size in advance. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- No spinner and no progress bar while the screen loads
- Blank fields already standing where text and images will land, at the size they will occupy
- A layout committed before the data arrives, so nothing shifts when it does
- Regions filling in one after another instead of the whole screen appearing at once

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: Reuse the finished screen's skeleton. Commit every position and dimension first so nothing moves once the content lands
- Type and lettering: Set no type at all. Where headings and body will go, lay blank fields matched to the real line height and measure
- Material and surface: Use neutral fields one step away from the background. Match corner radius and size to the real elements and add no further colour
- Colour: #FFFFFF carries the ground, #F2F4F6 is the colour the style is remembered by, #E4E6EA 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, calm

## What goes wrong

If the blank fields do not match the real content's dimensions, everything shifts the moment data lands, which reads worse than the spinner it replaced.

## 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/skeleton-screen/design.md