2.7 KiB
2.7 KiB
bloomberg-terminal — Bloomberg Terminal
- School: Information Architecture
- Vibe: Maximum data-ink, mission-critical density, chrome-amber on near-black
- Best for: Finance / trading / monitoring dashboards, "professionals don't have time for whitespace" products
- Touchstone: a real Bloomberg Terminal screenshot (always reference the real thing — it's denser than memory suggests)
Palette
- Ground:
#0A0E1A(deep navy-black) - Surface 1:
#11172A - Surface 2:
#1A2138 - Amber primary:
#FFA02F(the signature) - Positive (price-up):
#00B96B - Negative (price-down):
#F23645 - Muted label:
#5E6680 - High-importance text:
#E8ECF4
Typography
- Display & body: a monospaced workhorse — IBM Plex Mono, JetBrains Mono, or Berkeley Mono. Bloomberg itself uses a proprietary mono.
- Sizes: 11 / 12 / 13 / 14px — densely packed. No 16px body. No 32px headlines.
- All numerals tabular-aligned (right-aligned columns of digits)
Spacing: 2 / 4 / 8 / 12. Multi-pane layouts with no luxury margins.
Radius: 0 or 2px. Terminals don't round.
Shadow: none. Elevation through hairline borders only (#2A3050 1px lines).
Motion: ticker scroll (uniform linear), instant state flips, blink on data update (50–80ms flash). No eased animations.
Signature moves
- Multi-pane workspaces with hairline dividers — 4 to 9 panels visible at once
- Amber text on near-black for the most important data; chrome-white for secondary
- Status / ticker bar at top with marquee-scrolling tickers, color-coded up/down
- Keyboard-shortcut chips in the margins (
F9: TRADE) - Tabular data with monospaced digits, color-coded by delta
Avoid
- Any rounded corners
- Hero sections / marketing-style headlines
- Photography or illustration of any kind
- Decorative gradients (gradient meshes are not data-ink)
- Sans-serif body type (the monospace is the recipe)
AI prompt seed
Trading workstation user interface, deep navy #0A0E1A background, multi-pane layout with amber #FFA02F headlines, monospaced data tables, ticker scroll across the top, no rounded corners, no illustrations, fixed-width font throughout.
Don't use when
- The audience is consumer (they'll bounce in 3 seconds — terminal density is acquired taste)
- You can't fill the screen with real data — terminal aesthetic + dummy "Lorem 1,234" placeholders looks broken
- The task is a marketing landing page — terminals are for working in, not for selling
Same school — Information Architecture:
pentagram·vignelli-swiss-helvetica·tufte-dataink·nyt-the-daily
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