About NieR: Automata
NieR: Automata is a 2017 action-RPG from PlatinumGames and Square Enix, directed by Yoko Taro. Its YoRHa android interface is famously "entirely beige" — flat bone-white and soft greige fields under a faint sepia wash, framed by thin boxes and labelled in stark near-black serif type.
The world is desaturated ruins; the UI is quiet, boxed, and warm-grey. This is an authentic greige interface — never cream, never neon — a deliberate exception to dark-ground sci-fi convention, rendered with melancholy restraint and generous negative space.
- Origin
- Japan (Asia East)
- Era
- 2017 (far-future post-apocalypse setting)
- Key figures
- Yoko Taro · PlatinumGames · Square Enix
- Movements
- Minimalist game UI · Melancholy desaturated sci-fi · YoRHa beige interface design
NieR: Automata design spec
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