Drew Ink The year

Fluent Design

Microsoft's system after Metro, which put light, depth and material back into a flat language without returning to imitation.

Fluent Design: a rounded Windows app window on a wall of the foundry's own marks, its navigation pane made of acrylic so the colours behind the window come through it blurred and tinted, five navigation items each with its own drawn mark and one of them selected on a white pill with an accent bar, and a flat content area beside it holding a heading, a count and a row of cards carrying real marks.
Fluent Design, a Drew Ink window, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-10.

Near it

MetroMaterial DesignGlassmorphismAero

What it is made of

acrylica translucent blurred material, the ancestor of what got called glassmorphism
reveala light that follows the pointer and lights the edges of nearby controls

Where it came from

Announced at Microsoft Build in May 2017.

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