embossed

And look, they've got Adam's name embossed on them!"

I can see clearly now, the bevel and embossed rain is gone. Alas these icons are about as distracting as you can get.

The brushed metal, and poorly embossed edges make it look really dated. This thing is going to look out of place on pretty much any site.

It's a dropshadow on the text which makes the button text look embossed when there is a gradient on the buttons. There will be gradients on the buttons.

I imagine it might have to do with the actual surface of the 'keyboard' being embossed. It's very hard to use a tablet based UI to accomplish tasks like this because of the lack of physical controls.

Another option would be to put a 5mm embossed "K" on the bottom of the container, and call it a trademark, or trade-dress. Then make the receptacle require that exact "K" as a physical lock.

Nintendo once made a game system which only accepted floppy disks embossed with the Nintendo logo[1]. Which obviously can be protected by trademark law.

They are screen-printed by hand and embossed on really beautiful French paper. We are also just trying to maximize the amount of money we can raise for Watsi since this is a limited-edition poster.

With an imprint there's a larger barrier, creating an embossed card, doable but a barrier nonetheless. With credit cards, unless there was a unique image on it then you'd often be able to guess from the number what the other card details should look like.

The books have been scanned in high resolution and color so you can see the engraved illustrations, the beauty of the embossed covers, along with maps and even the texture of the paper the books were printed on." A better quip would involve PNG files.

1: "The USB Icon is embossed, in a recessed area, on the topside of the USB plug. This provides easy user recognition and facilitates alignment during the mating process."

Ever microUSB cable I have differs significantly top and bottom: - The top has the USB symbol that is embossed enough to feel it without looking. - The top of the metal sheath has "hooks" or other indendations that are both plainly visible and can be felt with a finger tip.

Apple caused the trend of embossed text + gray backgrounds, but they never went low-contrast; in fact their home page still uses a quite dated top menu, and sharp black on white text. Colorful, pastel, monotone and low-contrast UIs are just a general trend along with "flat" design, I don't think it's roots can be pinpointed.

You'd expect a million dollar offer letter to be embossed on linen paper with gold ink or something. Turns out it's just an ordinary offer letter, right down to requiring the CEO to bring in proof that she's legally eligible to work in the United States.

There are many ways for Braille to fail, particularly if embossed on a regularly-used banknote, and not everybody can use it. Differently-sized notes are much harder to break, and are potentially useful for everyone.

What you call "opacity, gradients, and effects", I call "total inability to be bolded, colored, embossed, etc." Apple's and Google's emoji basically entirely ignore CSS in favor of looking, well, exactly the way they look.

To be clear: I hate the current system of "secret numbers" embossed on plastic cards and encoded on magnetic stripes as a way of authenticating payments. At least, though, the plastic cards aren't battery-powered general purpose computers with radios attached to them.

The same guys were all over "lickable interfaces, drop shadows, embossed elements, etc" a few years back. Actually, circa 2005-7, it was a whole movement of developers using such visual sceuomorphic and ornamental details, named the "Delicious Generation".

As a side note about this, William Moon invented 'Moon script' which was a kind of simplified alphabet in embossed writing to help visually impaired people read. It was invented a little before Braille invented the raised dot patterns, and even after Braille became popular, Moon still had it's niche for those who didn't have the resolution for Braille.

Also, they do put a pretty prominent Apple logo on each device: notebooks with nothing but a glowing logo on the back, iPhones / iPads with a reflective metallic logo, heck, even the power chargers have an embossed logo on them. I'm not sure whether Apple should be able to patent the name "App Store," but it certainly does raise a question of what a brand is.

Today, we are in a future where Grants Mill Road has been straitened as it heads down toward the bridge, but some interface designer has not only retained the sign but had it painted to simulate a brushed aluminum finish and shading to simulate an embossed surface illuminated from the upper right. Most skeuomorphism is cutting two inches off the potroast.