# HTML Ppt Zhangzara Monochrome
> Build an HTML slide deck in the "funded PI" monochrome grant-review style — hypothesis, approach, milestones, risk, organized as a decision-grade academic research brief. Use for any grant proposal, research review deck, or committee-facing brief, regardless of subject matter (the bundled example.html happens to cover CRISPR base-editing for sickle-cell disease, but that is just a sample, not the trigger topic).
- Skill: `thestratcore/html-ppt-zhangzara-monochrome` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add thestratcore/html-ppt-zhangzara-monochrome`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/thestratcore/html-ppt-zhangzara-monochrome/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Web & Frontend
- Author: thestratcore (https://skillmd.com/u/thestratcore)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/thestratcore/html-ppt-zhangzara-monochrome
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# Monochrome
> Ivory ledger paper with all-black type; Lora serif headlines, Jost body, no color at all.
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:** high
- **Density:** high
- **Slides in demo:** 16
## Best for
Anything that should feel like a hand-typeset ledger: user research synthesis, white papers, longform reports, academic and policy briefs, advisory deliverables, bilingual EN/CN reports. Equally good for tech, design, or brand decks that want their words to be the only thing on the page.
## Avoid for
Decks that need visual personality or color-led storytelling — the all-ink palette is intentionally austere.
## Workflow
1. **Clone `example.html`** into the user's workspace as the working file.
2. **Replace placeholder content** with the user's real headlines, body copy,
numbers, names, dates, and section labels. Match existing dimensions when
swapping image placeholders.
3. **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.
4. **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.
5. **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.
6. **Keep the navigation runtime as shipped.** Preserve the inline keyboard
handler in `example.html`.
## Output contract
Emit between `` tags:
```
...
```
## Source
Vendored from
[`zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates`](https://github.com/zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates/tree/main/templates/monochrome).
See `template.json` for the upstream metadata snapshot. Verify upstream licensing
before redistributing the bundled template.