When 16 is > 16 million

[Techel]

Back on topic a bit - I am quite a fan of "minimalistic" designs (hard corners and bold colours) - but having a full 24-bit colourset makes getting the exact shade far easier than having to deal with a fixed palette.

Minimalistic design combined with some translucency is pretty neat.

[Elttob]

Minimalist designs are nice in my opinion also, but skeuomorphism also looks cool when its done right, think Windows 7.

Also, while this is a mock-up at present, I may expand my command line experiment thing into a graphical operating system if I ever get that far. I've not mentioned that it exists before because I'm mainly doing it for fun, I half expect I won't finish it.