HTML PPT — Tactical Telemetry / CRT Terminal
A 16:9 deck for project debriefs, security reviews, infra incident write-ups, ops walkthroughs, and any "we are not selling, we are reporting" presentation. Reads like a declassified mission packet, not a pitch deck.
This skill commits to ONE substrate (dark CRT) — never mix with the light Swiss-print mode in the same artifact.
Source
Distilled from Leonxlnx/taste-skill — skills/brutalist-skill/SKILL.md §2.2 (Tactical Telemetry & CRT Terminal). Deck system follows the project's existing html-ppt convention (16:9 slides, vertical-stack fallback when opened directly).
Hard rules
- Substrate: deactivated-CRT charcoal
#0A0A0A / #121212. Never pure black.
- Foreground: white phosphor
#EAEAEA. Secondary #9A9A98.
- Accent: ONE color — hazard red
#E61919. Used on alerts, classifications, the latest data point. Never as a slide background fill.
- Optional: terminal green
#4AF626 for ONE specific UI element across the entire deck (e.g. a single status indicator). Omit if it doesn't earn its place.
- Type: monospace dominates. JetBrains Mono / IBM Plex Mono for body and meta. Heavy condensed grotesque (Archivo Black / Inter Black) only for slide titles.
- Title scale:
clamp(56px, 7vw, 96px), uppercase, tracking -0.04em, leading 0.9.
- Geometry:
border-radius: 0. Visible 1px hairlines (#2A2A28 on charcoal). Use display: grid; gap: 1px over a hairline-colored background to render perfect cells.
- Scanline overlay: subtle
repeating-linear-gradient at 2px / 4px cycle, opacity ≤ 0.08, applied as a fixed pointer-events-none layer.
- Phosphor noise: optional SVG-grain pseudo-element, opacity ≤
0.06.
- Slide chrome: every slide carries top register strip — classification, slide ID, timestamp, coordinates — and a bottom bar with serial number + page.
Banned
border-radius above 0.- Drop shadows, gradients, glassmorphism, glow.
- Color other than charcoal, phosphor, hazard red, and at most one terminal-green element.
- Sans-serif body fonts. Monospace is the body.
- Pitch-deck "delight" — emoji, illustration, stock photography, friendly icons.
- Light-mode slides anywhere in the same deck.
- Slide transitions other than instant cuts.
Required slide archetypes (10–14 total)
- Classification cover — giant numeral or call-sign on the left, redaction bar above the title, mono meta column on the right.
- Briefing strip — eight-cell mono register with mission ID, dates, principals, classification.
- Numbered objectives — three to five hairline-separated theses, each with
>>> marker.
- Telemetry grid —
display: grid; gap: 1px of mono key-value cells; red highlight on the variant that breaks the trend.
- Threat / risk register — hairline table with severity column in red.
- Sequence / timeline — vertical mono list, 2-px vertical rule on the left, hazard markers on critical events.
- Diagram / wiring — pure-CSS box-and-line schematic; rectangles with hairlines, ASCII arrows.
- Specimen — single mono character or word at viewport-bleeding scale, used as a visual fulcrum.
- Alert — diagonal hazard-stripe block (
repeating-linear-gradient(135deg, ...)) with the most important sentence in the deck.
- Audit log — append-only mono entries with timestamp + actor + event.
- Closing colophon — operator, system, build, classification, sign-off line.
Motion
This aesthetic is mechanical and instant.
- Cuts between slides — no fades. Optionally a 60ms flicker (
opacity: 0.85 → 1).
- A blinking caret on the cover (
▌) and a single pulse on the live status dot. Nothing else moves.
Pre-flight
1---2name: html-ppt-taste-brutalist3description: 16:9 HTML deck in tactical-telemetry / CRT-terminal taste. Deactivated-CRT charcoal slides, white-phosphor monospace, hazard-red accent, scanline overlay, ASCII syntax, density over decoration. Distilled from Leonxlnx/taste-skill `brutalist-skill` (Tactical Telemetry mode).4---5
6# HTML PPT — Tactical Telemetry / CRT Terminal
7
8A 16:9 deck for project debriefs, security reviews, infra incident write-ups, ops walkthroughs, and any "we are not selling, we are reporting" presentation. Reads like a declassified mission packet, not a pitch deck.
9
10This skill commits to ONE substrate (dark CRT) — never mix with the light Swiss-print mode in the same artifact.
11
12## Source
13
14Distilled from [Leonxlnx/taste-skill](https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill) — `skills/brutalist-skill/SKILL.md` §2.2 (Tactical Telemetry & CRT Terminal). Deck system follows the project's existing `html-ppt` convention (16:9 slides, vertical-stack fallback when opened directly).
15
16## Hard rules
17
18- **Substrate:** deactivated-CRT charcoal `#0A0A0A` / `#121212`. Never pure black.
19- **Foreground:** white phosphor `#EAEAEA`. Secondary `#9A9A98`.
20- **Accent:** ONE color — hazard red `#E61919`. Used on alerts, classifications, the latest data point. Never as a slide background fill.
21- **Optional:** terminal green `#4AF626` for ONE specific UI element across the entire deck (e.g. a single status indicator). Omit if it doesn't earn its place.
22- **Type:** monospace dominates. JetBrains Mono / IBM Plex Mono for body and meta. Heavy condensed grotesque (Archivo Black / Inter Black) only for slide titles.
23- **Title scale:** `clamp(56px, 7vw, 96px)`, uppercase, tracking `-0.04em`, leading `0.9`.
24- **Geometry:** `border-radius: 0`. Visible 1px hairlines (`#2A2A28` on charcoal). Use `display: grid; gap: 1px` over a hairline-colored background to render perfect cells.
25- **Scanline overlay:** subtle `repeating-linear-gradient` at `2px / 4px` cycle, opacity ≤ `0.08`, applied as a fixed pointer-events-none layer.
26- **Phosphor noise:** optional SVG-grain pseudo-element, opacity ≤ `0.06`.
27- **Slide chrome:** every slide carries top register strip — classification, slide ID, timestamp, coordinates — and a bottom bar with serial number + page.
28
29## Banned
30
31- `border-radius` above 0.
32- Drop shadows, gradients, glassmorphism, glow.
33- Color other than charcoal, phosphor, hazard red, and at most one terminal-green element.
34- Sans-serif body fonts. Monospace is the body.
35- Pitch-deck "delight" — emoji, illustration, stock photography, friendly icons.
36- Light-mode slides anywhere in the same deck.
37- Slide transitions other than instant cuts.
38
39## Required slide archetypes (10–14 total)
40
411. **Classification cover** — giant numeral or call-sign on the left, redaction bar above the title, mono meta column on the right.
422. **Briefing strip** — eight-cell mono register with mission ID, dates, principals, classification.
433. **Numbered objectives** — three to five hairline-separated theses, each with `>>>` marker.
444. **Telemetry grid** — `display: grid; gap: 1px` of mono key-value cells; red highlight on the variant that breaks the trend.
455. **Threat / risk register** — hairline table with severity column in red.
466. **Sequence / timeline** — vertical mono list, 2-px vertical rule on the left, hazard markers on critical events.
477. **Diagram / wiring** — pure-CSS box-and-line schematic; rectangles with hairlines, ASCII arrows.
488. **Specimen** — single mono character or word at viewport-bleeding scale, used as a visual fulcrum.
499. **Alert** — diagonal hazard-stripe block (`repeating-linear-gradient(135deg, ...)`) with the most important sentence in the deck.
5010. **Audit log** — append-only mono entries with timestamp + actor + event.
5111. **Closing colophon** — operator, system, build, classification, sign-off line.
52
53## Motion
54
55This aesthetic is mechanical and instant.
56- Cuts between slides — no fades. Optionally a 60ms flicker (`opacity: 0.85 → 1`).
57- A blinking caret on the cover (`▌`) and a single pulse on the live status dot. Nothing else moves.
58
59## Pre-flight
60
61- [ ] Substrate is charcoal, foreground is phosphor, only accent is hazard red
62- [ ] All `border-radius` is 0; all corners are 90°
63- [ ] Title slide includes classification + serial + timestamp + coordinates
64- [ ] At least one `display: grid; gap: 1px` telemetry module
65- [ ] Scanline overlay applied as fixed pointer-events-none element, opacity ≤ 0.08
66- [ ] At least one diagonal hazard-stripe alert block
67- [ ] ASCII syntax decoration (`[ ... ]`, `>>>`, `///`) appears at least four times across the deck
68- [ ] Numeric data uses tabular-nums + monospace
69- [ ] No emojis, no curves, no gradients, no shadow effects
70- [ ] Terminal green appears on zero or one element only — never as text body color
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