--- name: html-ppt-zhangzara-retro-windows description: | Retro Windows — Windows 95 chrome: gray title bars, MS Sans Serif, pixel typography, full nostalgia. Anything that should feel knowingly nostalgic: retro gaming, Y2K-aesthetic brands, creator portfolios with a 90s vibe, tech-history talks, deliberately tongue-in-cheek decks. triggers: - "retro-windows" - "zhangzara-retro-windows" - "Retro Windows" - "nostalgic" - "retro" - "winking" - "retro gaming pitch" - "Y2K brand" - "html deck" - "html slides" - "zhangzara" od: mode: deck scenario: marketing upstream: "https://github.com/zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates/tree/main/templates/retro-windows" upstream_license: MIT preview: type: html entry: example.html design_system: requires: false speaker_notes: false animations: false --- # Retro Windows > Windows 95 chrome: gray title bars, MS Sans Serif, pixel typography, full nostalgia. 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:** low - **Density:** medium - **Slides in demo:** 10 ## Best for Anything that should feel knowingly nostalgic: retro gaming, Y2K-aesthetic brands, creator portfolios with a 90s vibe, tech-history talks, deliberately tongue-in-cheek decks. A great choice anywhere a playful retro reference is the entire point. ## Avoid for Decks that need to read as modern, elegant, or institutionally credible — the Win95 chrome will always read as a costume. ## 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 `` tags: ``` ... ``` ## Source & license Vendored from upstream MIT-licensed [`zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates`](https://github.com/zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates/tree/main/templates/retro-windows). 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.