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Metro (design language)

Microsoft Design Language (or MDL), also known as Metro, is a design language created by Microsoft, and is based on flat design style. This design language is focused on typography and simplified icons, absence of clutter, increased content to chrome ratio ("content before chrome"), and basic geometric shapes.

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Metro (design language)

Nodes69
Edges68
Triples2
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
Components1

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Xbox liking Metroinstance ofand the extension of Metro was not a company-wide approach but instead teams0.80text
adapting it for its own productsinstance ofand the extension of Metro was not a company-wide approach but instead teams0.80text

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