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Surface & texture · Simulated material

Skeuomorphic material

Leather, wood, paper and metal imitated.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under surface & texture: what is the material finish?

styles make it: 11
as a defining choice: 3
as a usual one: 2
now and then: 6
avoid it: 23

Styles defined by it 3

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Basel Object Poster (Swiss Sachplakat)1919–1955 · Central EuropeThe Swiss descendant of the German object poster, made in Zurich and above all Basel from 1919 to the early 1950s.
Tiki Pop (Polynesian Pop)1934–present · North AmericaThe mainland American fantasy of the South Seas, begun by Don the Beachcomber's Hollywood bar (about 1934) and Trader Vic's in Oakland and at its height in the Polynesian restaurants of the 1950s and 60s.
Skeuomorphic UI2000–2013 · Global / networkedInterface design that imitates physical materials and objects (stitched leather, linen, wooden shelves, brushed aluminium, felt, paper and glass) so that digital tools look and behave like their real-world counterparts.

Styles that often use it 2

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 6

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Gradientsin 7 of 11
Luxurious & glamorousin 5 of 11
Eclectic mixingin 6 of 11
Illusion of depthin 6 of 11
Straight photographyin 6 of 11
Dark groundin 7 of 11

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Other choices in surface & texture