"common look" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe when two people share a meaningful glance or something that is easily recognizable by a lot of people. For example: "The couple shared a common look before walking away from each other."
Furthermore, there are always tensions -- commonality of skills (can one team use MySQL and other Postgres?), common look and feel (do you want your surface area to look like Frankenstein?) etc. "Architectural Committees" are considered anathemas.
It has been a common look in Walsh's two years as the Knicks' team president.
Why did these two women, who seem to have nothing in common, look as if they could be mother and daughter?
"It was a very common look back in the 80s where I grew up in New Jersey," he says of his character's retro fashion sense.
The key to standardizing software functions on the Internet, Microsoft has said, lies in application program interfaces, or A.P.I.'s, the digital templates that enable developers to create many varieties of software that all share a common look and a common way of performing many functions, like printing, manipulating on-screen windows and constructing menus.
What the company needs, Mulally says, is a common look, feel and brand name for all Fords.
Yes, the Red Sox are pulling themselves off the mat, Boston Common looks like it's posing for its spring postcard photos and reminding everyone why they live there, and the Patriots haven't spied on anyone in a while.
When 10% moves in stocks in a day or all too common, looking at your portfolio only once a week will not suffice.
With the major studios, where pleasure for profit is one of the primary motivators, there are common looks, titles, and sex acts that sell.
With his foundation, Common Ground, and help from fellow Chicago luminaries such as Dwyane Wade, Common looks to offer an outstretched hand to preserve the forsaken members of Generation Y before it's too late.
Empiric treatment of traveller's diarrhoea with antimicrobial agents is common; looking at returned travellers would be likely to miss many shigella infections in travellers.
