html-ppt-zhangzara-retro-zine
Helps your agent create a zine about neighborhood corner shops that closed. It captures their voices and the impact of these losses on the community.
What it does
This tool creates a simple website that looks like an old printed magazine, with a 'handmade' feel. It's ideal for those who want to present information in a charming and unique way, without looking like a common modern website.
When to use it
- ✓Creating a portfolio for artistic or craft work.
- ✓Making a presentation about a community or local project.
- ✓Developing a website for a band or brand with an 'indie' style.
Example of what to ask your AI
“Create a website in an old magazine style to showcase my community garden project.”
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
Ready-to-paste message
How it works
The tool uses a ready-made website template that mimics the look of printed magazines with limited features. You just need to replace the texts and images with yours, keeping the original style.
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-retro-zineOr download just the file:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nexu-io/open-design/main/design-templates/html-ppt-zhangzara-retro-zine/SKILL.md -o SKILL.mdTechnical content (original SKILL.md)
Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.
Retro Zine
Beige paper with green accent and Bebas Neue + Caveat: a riso-printed zine in HTML form.
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: medium-low
- Density: medium
- Slides in demo: 10
Best for
Anything that should feel printed, lo-fi, and crafted: indie zines and publications, music / arts brands, creator portfolios, small-batch craft launches, community decks. Also a great underdog choice for tech, research, or business decks that want a riso-print warmth instead of digital polish.
Avoid for
Contexts that demand digital-native polish or fast modern-tech energy — the layered zine aesthetic intentionally feels handmade.
Workflow
- Clone
example.htmlinto 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.jsor inline keyboard handler, leave it intact.
Output contract
Emit between <artifact> tags:
<artifact identifier="zhangzara-retro-zine" 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 look is fixed to maintain the printed magazine style. Changing it would break the design.
Is it difficult to add more pages?
You can duplicate existing pages to add more content or remove ones you don't need.
Can I use it for serious projects like business or research?
Yes, if you want a 'handmade' and less digital touch, it works well to give a different feel to these projects.
Details
Original description by the author
A neighborhood zine on the disappearing corner shops — portraits, voices, and what a block loses when they close. Built as a decision-grade story deck for community, local readers.
repo: nexu-io/open-design
Popularity
- GitHub stars
- 101k
- Ranking position
- #461
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Updated
- 10/16/2026
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