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> The reason why so many early 1990s UIs have this kind of color scheme Do you have any examples? Because from the early 1990s I only remember Windows pre-XP (
by tralarpa 3y ago
> The reason why so many early 1990s UIs have this kind of color scheme
Do you have any examples? Because from the early 1990s I only remember Windows pre-XP (mostly black and white and blue), AmigaOS (mostly gray, including the newer frameworks like MUI), NeXTStep (gray). Only exception: the colored tabs in OS/2 Warp, if I remember correctly.
- fidotron 3y agoSGI Irix is a good case https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX It is the windows 3.1 aesthetic on much more capable hardware.
- tralarpa 3y agoThanks. But I was looking for something like the flash tool shown on the website, or like the default color scheme of Morphic. "Crazy" colored GUI elements etc., not just the background. Edit: never mind. The link by pavlov has more examples.
- pavlov 3y agoSGI IRIX is a pastel-land which I'm very fond of: http://toastytech.com/guis/irix.html http://toastytech.com/guis/irix.html It's more muted, but follows the principle of "let's use these truecolor hues now that we've got them." The global fashion trend after 1990 was moving away from bright pure colors and towards increasingly muted pastels. So for examples of more bright-colored UIs on 256-color displays, I think the Mac II / System 6 era would be the place to look. Early CD-ROMs might be a rich vein.
- actionfromafar 3y agoAmigaOS 1.3 and earlier was bright blue, white and a sprinkle of orange.
- noelwelsh 3y agoWindows 1.01 goes hard on the vibrant pastels: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win101 https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win101 It's a reflection in UIs of Memphis Design, which dominated the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group
- einr 3y agoCDE: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/CDE_Application_Builder.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/CDE_Appl... CDE had different default color schemes from different vendors but most of them were pretty colorful in pastel hues.
- rbanffy 3y agoFor Sun at least it superseded OpenLook, which was mostly grey and a saturated blue background. I actually liked it better than CDE.