# Overview styles

The Overview can look thirteen ways: pick one under **Settings → Overview style**. Every style shows
the same readings (battery, range, power, speed, gear, usage, trip, climate, odometer, time) and
shows "—" for anything the car did not answer, never a made-up zero.

Each style has two screenshots: with the navigation, and in the Overview's own full screen (the
button beside the MG4 logo; swipe in from the left edge to come back). They come from the test
emulator at the car's resolution with **sample values** (87 km/h in D, 76 %, 18.4 kW), since the
emulator has no car; on the car the values are live.

**Colours.** Most styles are drawn in the accent colour you pick from the MG4 paints (Settings →
Accent colour; shown here in Dynamic Red). Retro, Terminal and Grid can also show their original
colours, and Sci-fi, Cartoon and Nixie tubes always do; while one of those is shown, the whole app
(navigation, buttons, switches) takes on its colours too.

| Style | Look | Colours |
|---|---|---|
| [Tiles](#tiles) | the app's own cards | accent |
| [Gauges](#gauges) | analogue needles | accent |
| [Cockpit](#cockpit) | segment rings, power trace | accent |
| [Retro](#retro) | 80s fluorescent display | original or accent |
| [Futuristic](#futuristic) | holographic HUD, energy flow | accent |
| [Sci-fi](#sci-fi) | starship console | own |
| [Cartoon](#cartoon) | comic panels | own |
| [MG](#mg) | octagonal MG dials | accent |
| [Minimal](#minimal) | one big number | accent |
| [Terminal](#terminal) | green-screen shell | original or accent |
| [Nixie tubes](#nixie-tubes) | glowing glass tubes | own |
| [Chronograph](#chronograph) | a watch face | accent |
| [Grid](#grid) | neon lines on a glowing grid floor | original or accent |

## Tiles

The app's original look, from the design it was forked from: glass cards on OLED black, one tile
per value, with the averages over the last five minutes and since the start, vehicle info (with
the lease allowance) and the tyre pressures on a little top view of the car. The most
information on one screen.

![Tiles with the navigation](screenshots/themes/tiles-panel.png)
![Tiles, full screen](screenshots/themes/tiles.png)

## Gauges

Three round instruments with needles, like a classic analogue dashboard: power on the left,
speed in the middle, charge on the right (E to F), and a strip below with gear, climate, time,
usage and a small battery. The needles glide to new values instead of jumping.

![Gauges with the navigation](screenshots/themes/gauges-panel.png)
![Gauges, full screen](screenshots/themes/gauges.png)

## Cockpit

After the digital clusters of modern EVs: rings of lit segments for battery, power and usage.
The power ring in the middle is centred on zero (regeneration lights up anticlockwise in green)
and carries the speed and gear inside it; along the bottom, a strip with the power of the last
two minutes.

![Cockpit with the navigation](screenshots/themes/cockpit-panel.png)
![Cockpit, full screen](screenshots/themes/cockpit.png)

## Retro

An 80s digital dashboard: a vacuum fluorescent display behind smoked glass, as in the
digital-instrument cars of that decade. Slanted seven-segment digits with the unlit segments
faintly visible, bar graphs for charge and power, amber labels and a lit P R N D. In its original
turquoise (shown) or in the accent colour.

![Retro with the navigation](screenshots/themes/retro-panel.png)
![Retro, full screen](screenshots/themes/retro.png)

## Futuristic

A holographic head-up display in hairlines: the battery as a capsule on the left, the speed in a
ring of dashes that turns with it on the right, and between them an energy channel in which
particles flow from the battery to the wheels while driving, and back in green while
regenerating, faster with more power.

![Futuristic with the navigation](screenshots/themes/futuristic-panel.png)
![Futuristic, full screen](screenshots/themes/futuristic.png)

## Sci-fi

A starship console, after the look of the computer screens in 90s science-fiction TV: rounded
"elbow" frames in orange and lilac, pill-shaped labels, condensed capitals and blocky bar graphs
on black. Below 20 % charge the frames turn red: red alert. The app takes on the lilac of the
lower frame.

![Sci-fi with the navigation](screenshots/themes/scifi-panel.png)
![Sci-fi, full screen](screenshots/themes/scifi.png)

## Cartoon

Comic panels in flat colours with thick ink outlines on a night-blue page: a battery with a face
(happy, unsure, then worried and sweating as it empties), a chunky speedometer whose needle
wobbles into place, and the "zap-o-meter" for power with a sound word: PURR, VROOM, ZOOM! or
RECHARGE! while regenerating.

![Cartoon with the navigation](screenshots/themes/cartoon-panel.png)
![Cartoon, full screen](screenshots/themes/cartoon.png)

## MG

After the classic MG dashboards, whose dials sat in octagonal bezels: three octagonal dials with
chrome rims and cream scales (battery, speed, power), needles in the accent colour, and a line of
odometer, trip, usage, climate and time separated by small octagons.

![MG with the navigation](screenshots/themes/mg-panel.png)
![MG, full screen](screenshots/themes/mg.png)

## Minimal

One number and almost nothing else: the speed, very large and thin, the gear above it, power as a
short line growing from the centre, and the battery as a hairline along the bottom edge. For calm
driving.

![Minimal with the navigation](screenshots/themes/minimal-panel.png)
![Minimal, full screen](screenshots/themes/minimal.png)

## Terminal

As if a shell printed the car's state: `watch -n 0.2 vehicle-status` on a green-phosphor screen
with faint scan lines, each value on a row with an ASCII bar, the gear as `[D]`, and a prompt with
a blinking cursor. A low battery turns its row amber. In green (shown) or in the accent colour.

![Terminal with the navigation](screenshots/themes/terminal-panel.png)
![Terminal, full screen](screenshots/themes/terminal.png)

## Nixie tubes

The glow of nixie tubes, the neon number displays of 50s to 70s lab instruments: orange digits in
glass tubes, the unlit numerals faintly behind the lit one, on a dark walnut panel with brass name
plates. Speed, gear and battery on top; power, range, usage and the time below.

![Nixie tubes with the navigation](screenshots/themes/nixie-panel.png)
![Nixie tubes, full screen](screenshots/themes/nixie.png)

## Chronograph

A watch face, after a chronograph wristwatch: a deep-blue dial with a steel bezel carrying the
speed scale, the long main hand for the speed, sub-dials for battery, power and usage, and the
gear in a date window. Engraved columns either side carry range, trip, time, climate and
odometer.

![Chronograph with the navigation](screenshots/themes/chronograph-panel.png)
![Chronograph, full screen](screenshots/themes/chronograph.png)

## Grid

After the neon world of the Tron films: glowing lines on black and a perspective grid floor that
runs towards you as fast as you drive. The speed sits large in the middle; the battery is a
segmented light wall standing on the floor, turning orange when it runs low; power lights up a
disc whose inner ring turns with it, anticlockwise for regeneration; and the last two minutes of
power run across the floor as a light-cycle trail that only turns at right angles. In its
original cyan (shown, and the app turns cyan with it) or in the accent colour — red gives the
films' other side.

![Grid with the navigation](screenshots/themes/grid-panel.png)
![Grid, full screen](screenshots/themes/grid.png)