Retro Windows
Windows 95 chrome: gray title bars, MS Sans Serif, pixel typography, full nostalgia.
A single self-contained HTML deck — typography, palette, decorative system,
and slide vocabulary are all tuned together. Mixing layouts across templates
breaks the system; stay inside this one.
At a glance
- Scheme: light
- Formality: low
- Density: medium
- Slides in demo: 10
Best for
Anything that should feel knowingly nostalgic: retro gaming, Y2K-aesthetic brands, creator portfolios with a 90s vibe, tech-history talks, deliberately tongue-in-cheek decks. A great choice anywhere a playful retro reference is the entire point.
Avoid for
Decks that need to read as modern, elegant, or institutionally credible — the Win95 chrome will always read as a costume.
Workflow
- Clone
example.html into the user's workspace as the working file.
- Replace placeholder content with the user's real headlines, body copy,
numbers, names, dates, and section labels. Match existing dimensions when
swapping image placeholders.
- Preserve the design system. Never substitute fonts, recolor the palette,
restructure the layout grid, or strip decorative elements (corner brackets,
paper grain, geometric shapes, illustrated SVGs). They are part of the
identity.
- Adjust deck length by duplicating layouts. If the user has more content
than the demo holds, duplicate an existing slide of the most appropriate
layout. If less, drop slides from the bottom. Update page-number labels.
- Designing missing layouts: if a slide needs a layout the template
doesn't have, design it from scratch using the same fonts, palette,
decorative vocabulary, spacing rhythm, and component grammar — never bail
to a different template.
- Keep the navigation runtime as shipped. If the deck ships an
assets/deck-stage.js or inline keyboard handler, leave it intact.
Output contract
Emit between <artifact> tags:
<artifact identifier="zhangzara-retro-windows" type="text/html" title="Deck Title">
<!doctype html>
<html>...</html>
</artifact>
Source & license
Vendored from upstream MIT-licensed
zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates.
The full upstream MIT license text — including the original copyright notice — ships in this skill at
LICENSE and must be redistributed alongside any copy of example.html,
template.json, or any vendored assets/ runtime. See template.json for the upstream metadata snapshot.
1---2name: html-ppt-zhangzara-retro-windows3description: Retro Windows — Windows 95 chrome: gray title bars, MS Sans Serif, pixel typography, full nostalgia. Anything that should feel knowingly nostalgic: retro gaming, Y2K-aesthetic brands, creator portfolios with a 90s vibe, tech-history talks, deliberately tongue-in-cheek decks.4---56# Retro Windows78> Windows 95 chrome: gray title bars, MS Sans Serif, pixel typography, full nostalgia.910A single self-contained HTML deck — typography, palette, decorative system,11and slide vocabulary are all tuned together. Mixing layouts across templates12breaks the system; stay inside this one.1314## At a glance1516- **Scheme:** light17- **Formality:** low18- **Density:** medium19- **Slides in demo:** 102021## Best for2223Anything that should feel knowingly nostalgic: retro gaming, Y2K-aesthetic brands, creator portfolios with a 90s vibe, tech-history talks, deliberately tongue-in-cheek decks. A great choice anywhere a playful retro reference is the entire point.2425## Avoid for2627Decks that need to read as modern, elegant, or institutionally credible — the Win95 chrome will always read as a costume.2829## Workflow30311. **Clone `example.html`** into the user's workspace as the working file.322. **Replace placeholder content** with the user's real headlines, body copy,33 numbers, names, dates, and section labels. Match existing dimensions when34 swapping image placeholders.353. **Preserve the design system.** Never substitute fonts, recolor the palette,36 restructure the layout grid, or strip decorative elements (corner brackets,37 paper grain, geometric shapes, illustrated SVGs). They are part of the38 identity.394. **Adjust deck length by duplicating layouts.** If the user has more content40 than the demo holds, duplicate an existing slide of the most appropriate41 layout. If less, drop slides from the bottom. Update page-number labels.425. **Designing missing layouts:** if a slide needs a layout the template43 doesn't have, design it from scratch using the same fonts, palette,44 decorative vocabulary, spacing rhythm, and component grammar — never bail45 to a different template.466. **Keep the navigation runtime as shipped.** If the deck ships an47 `assets/deck-stage.js` or inline keyboard handler, leave it intact.4849## Output contract5051Emit between `<artifact>` tags:5253```54<artifact identifier="zhangzara-retro-windows" type="text/html" title="Deck Title">55<!doctype html>56<html>...</html>57</artifact>58```5960## Source & license6162Vendored from upstream MIT-licensed63[`zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates`](https://github.com/zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates/tree/main/templates/retro-windows).6465The full upstream MIT license text — including the original copyright notice — ships in this skill at66[`LICENSE`](./LICENSE) and must be redistributed alongside any copy of `example.html`,67`template.json`, or any vendored `assets/` runtime. See `template.json` for the upstream metadata snapshot.
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