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html-ppt-zhangzara-cartesian

Lets your agent present complex academic theses clearly. Explains strategies, evidence, and limitations of economic research to committees.

What it does

This template creates elegant and formal HTML presentations with a classic look and neutral colors. It's ideal for serious academic work, investment reports, or any content needing a mature and considered tone.

When to use it

  • ✓Presenting an important academic paper.
  • ✓Creating a detailed investment report.
  • ✓Developing a long, formal research paper.

Example of what to ask your AI

“Create a formal HTML presentation about the employment effects of local minimum wage increases, using the Cartesian template.”

Want more? Open the sections below.

How to use

The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.

Skill link

https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/blob/main/design-templates/html-ppt-zhangzara-cartesian/SKILL.md

Ready-to-paste message

Use this skill to help me: https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/blob/main/design-templates/html-ppt-zhangzara-cartesian/SKILL.md Read the SKILL.md file at that link and follow its instructions for my task.
How it works

You copy an example file and replace the text with your content. It's important to keep the original visual style, like fonts and colors, and duplicate slides if you need more space.

Installation

Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.

In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill html-ppt-zhangzara-cartesian

Or download just the file:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nexu-io/open-design/main/design-templates/html-ppt-zhangzara-cartesian/SKILL.md -o SKILL.md
Technical content (original SKILL.md)

Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.

Cartesian

Quiet warm-neutral palette with classical Playfair serifs; tasteful and unhurried.

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: low
  • Slides in demo: 10

Best for

Anything that should feel quiet, considered, and grown-up: investment theses, white papers, advisory work, longform research, gallery / cultural decks. Also a strong choice for editorial features, founder reflections, or any deck where restraint is the message — including across tech and finance.

Avoid for

Decks that need visual heat, multiple accents, or a sense of urgency — the warm-neutral palette is intentionally low-energy.

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. 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-cartesian" 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.

FAQ

Can I change the colors and fonts?

No, the template is designed to maintain a consistent visual style. Changing colors and fonts can break the design.

What do 'light scheme' and 'high formality' mean?

'Light scheme' refers to the use of light colors in the design. 'High formality' means the look is serious and professional, suitable for important contexts.

How do I add more slides?

You can duplicate existing slides that have a layout similar to what you need. If you have less content, you can remove slides from the end.

Details

Original description by the author

An economics senior thesis on the employment effects of local minimum-wage increases — identification strategy, evidence, and limitations. Built as a decision-grade coursework defense deck for thesis committee.

repo: nexu-io/open-design

Popularity

GitHub stars
101k
Ranking position
#444
License
Apache-2.0
Updated
10/16/2026

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