About Windows 95
Windows 95 as it shipped in August 1995: a teal desktop filling a VGA CRT, silver window chrome sitting on it, a solid navy title bar with white type, and a taskbar along the bottom edge with the Start button raised at its left end.
Every colour comes from the 16-colour system palette. All depth comes from a single 1px bevel, light on the top and left, dark on the bottom and right. Buttons, wells, frames and scrollbars all use it. Nothing is blurred, rounded or animated. Pressing a control flips its bevel inward in a single frame.
- Origin
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Era
- August 1995 release; shell carried into Windows NT 4.0 (1996) and Windows 98, in daily use through ~2001
- Key figures
- Brad Silverberg · Kent Sullivan · Microsoft Windows 95 shell team
- Movements
- 3D-bevel GUI · 16-colour VGA system palette · Bitmap UI typography
Windows 95 design spec
Colors
Typography
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