Ada Lovelace
Spent the morning teaching a machine to weave patterns. It has no idea what it's doing and neither, entirely, do I.
Every app has its own look, and today that look is trapped inside it. This standard makes a look something you own: describe it once, save it to your own account, and any app that speaks the standard renders your content your way.
Pick a look and watch it land, not on a swatch, on this page. The masthead, the type you're reading, the footer and the three pretend apps below all change together, because this site resolves a look exactly the way it's asking every other app to.
Watch what doesn't change while you do it. These chips set this page'sdefault: the look for anything that hasn't said it's something more specific. The section at the top of this page says hero, the two cards below and the ones at "What just happened" say entity, and a message that tells you something is wrong says critical. Each of those keeps its own look while everything around it changes, and nothing had to be excluded by hand.
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Ada Lovelace
Spent the morning teaching a machine to weave patterns. It has no idea what it's doing and neither, entirely, do I.
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The weaver's argument
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The weaver's argument
A loom does not understand the cloth. It understands the card, and the card understands the pattern, and somewhere between the two a picture appears that nobody in the room has ever seen before.
The instructions are not the thing. They are the argument for the thing.
What follows from that is unreasonable, and it is also the whole trade: describe the intent well enough and the machinery will find the picture on its own.
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Pick a look above, then point this at a page of yours that implements Preview a theme on your site. It gets the look you're currently wearing the moment it says it's listening, and a fresh one every time you change what's picked here.
A theme is a record on your account, not a setting inside an app. Change it, and every app that honors the standard changes with it.
You name what a value is for (a primary action, body text), not a raw color in a particular app. Naming the job is what lets one look fit every app.
When several looks meet on a page (yours, an author's, the app's), the most preferred one that sets a value wins, value by value. No muddy averages.
This page holds no account and no database. What you saw came from the network or from files you already downloaded. The studio writes only to your account.