Visual Seal

The rules for how the music boxes look and move, designed for the eyes of a small child.

The pictures

• There is always a music box, with its crank: that's what makes them recognisable.
• A single main figure, centred and clear.
• Nothing scary, no aggressive expressions and no letters.
• For babies and toddlers, dark, warm backgrounds: never white or blue.

The movement

• Gentle and predictable: no jumps, and it always returns to where it started.
• Never more than 3 sudden changes of light per second (the international accessibility standard, WCAG).
• Only one picture moves at a time.
• It goes with the music, it doesn't compete with it.
• If the device has "Reduce Motion" turned on, the music box respects it.

The background colours, and why, are explained in The colours.

For each age