---
name: nexu-io-html-ppt-zhangzara-retro-zine
description: "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."
license: "Apache-2.0"
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---
# 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

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-retro-zine" type="text/html" title="Deck Title">
<!doctype html>
<html>...</html>
</artifact>
```

## Source & license

Vendored from upstream MIT-licensed
[`zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates`](https://github.com/zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates/tree/main/templates/retro-zine).

The full upstream MIT license text — including the original copyright notice — ships in this skill at
[`LICENSE`](./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.