---
name: html-ppt-zhangzara-soft-editorial
description: |
Soft Editorial — Cormorant Garamond serif on warm paper with sage, blush, and lemon accents. Anything that should feel literary, elegant, and unhurried: editorial features, longform brand stories, gallery / museum decks, advisory deliverables, wedding / lifestyle media, founder essays.
triggers:
- "soft-editorial"
- "zhangzara-soft-editorial"
- "Soft Editorial"
- "literary"
- "elegant"
- "considered"
- "editorial feature"
- "longform brand story"
- "html deck"
- "html slides"
- "zhangzara"
od:
mode: deck
scenario: marketing
upstream: "https://github.com/zarazhangrui/beautiful-html-templates/tree/main/templates/soft-editorial"
upstream_license: MIT
preview:
type: html
entry: example.html
design_system:
requires: false
speaker_notes: false
animations: false
---
# Soft Editorial
> Cormorant Garamond serif on warm paper with sage, blush, and lemon accents.
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:** 12
## Best for
Anything that should feel literary, elegant, and unhurried: editorial features, longform brand stories, gallery / museum decks, advisory deliverables, wedding / lifestyle media, founder essays. Equally good for tech, research, or business decks that want a Sunday-supplement warmth instead of corporate polish.
## Avoid for
Decks that need visual heat or punch — the warm-paper palette and Cormorant serif are intentionally quiet.
## Workflow
1. **Clone `example.html` AND the `assets/` folder** into the user's workspace.
This template ships an `assets/deck-stage.js` runtime (keyboard navigation,
stage rendering); the HTML references it as `assets/deck-stage.js`, so the
file must sit next to the cloned HTML or that path will 404 in the generated
artifact and navigation will silently break. Inlining the JS into a single
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