HTML PPT — Editorial Minimalism

A 16:9 deck for the briefs that hate neon: investor updates, design reviews, internal manifestos, lecture decks. Reads like a print supplement, not a SaaS landing.

Source

Distilled from Leonxlnx/taste-skill — skills/minimalist-skill/SKILL.md. The deck system follows the existing project convention from design-templates/html-ppt-pitch-deck/example.html (each .slide is a 100vw × 100vh section; opened directly, slides stack vertically). See example.html in this directory.

Hard rules

• Substrate: warm off-white #FBFBFA / #F7F6F3. Foreground off-black #1A1A19. Never pure white or pure black.
• Type pairing: display in serif (Instrument Serif / Newsreader / Lyon), body in grotesque (Inter Tight / Switzer), meta in mono (JetBrains Mono).
• Display scale per slide: title clamp(56px, 6.5vw, 96px) italic-capable serif, line-height 1.05, tracking -0.025em.
• Hairline only: 1px solid #EAEAEA — borders, dividers, table cells. No drop shadows.
• One accent color chosen from the muted-pastel pairs (e.g. sage #346538 on #EDF3EC, or red #9F2F2D on #FDEBEC). Used sparingly — eyebrow dot, chart fill, call-out chip. Never as a slide background.
• Slide padding: generous (72px 96px minimum). Title at most 14ch wide.
• Eyebrow: every slide opens with a mono uppercase eyebrow letter-spacing: 0.18em and a section number 01 / 09.
• Page numbers: mono, bottom-right corner.

Banned

• Inter (use Inter Tight if you must, but prefer Switzer / SF Pro). No Roboto, Open Sans.
• Heavy drop shadows. Glow. Gradient text.
• 3-equal-card feature rows. Use uneven hairline-divided columns instead.
• Emojis in text or as bullet markers — use — or no marker.
• Full-bleed photography on every slide. Use one or two image slides; reserve them.
• AI-cliché copy ("Elevate", "Unleash", "Seamless", "Next-Gen").
• Slide transitions noisier than fade-in.

Required slide archetypes (10–12 total recommended)

1. Cover — serif title, italic mid-sentence accent, mono meta footer.
2. Eyebrow + thesis — single sentence of body lede on the left; mono numbered TOC on the right.
3. Numbered manifesto — three or four hairline-separated theses.
4. Bento data slide — uneven 6-col grid with hairline gaps; one stat in serif, supporting in mono.
5. Quote / pull-out — single sentence at large serif, attribution mono, hairline above and below.
6. Comparison — two columns separated by a vertical hairline; "Doesn't / Does" or "Before / After".
7. Table or index — display: grid; gap: 1px on hairline color.
8. Chart or breakdown — flat horizontal bar chart with mono labels, accent fill only on the latest bar.
9. Team / colophon — mono key-value list, no avatars.
10. Closing — serif final line italic; CTA as ghost button; signature in mono.

Motion

• Static-preview fallback: keep every slide visible (already wired by the deck base). When run as a real deck, fade-in at 400ms cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1) is plenty.
• No translate, no blur, no auto-advance.

Pre-flight

• [ ] Substrate is warm off-white; foreground is off-black; never pure black/white
• [ ] Serif used on titles, grotesque on body, mono on meta — three families, three jobs
• [ ] One accent color, used at most three times in the whole deck
• [ ] Every slide has eyebrow + section number + page number
• [ ] At least one hairline-grid table or comparison module
• [ ] No drop shadows, no gradients, no emojis, no banned fonts